{"product_id":"everyone-wants-a-village-nobody-wants-to-be-a-villager-sun-14th-jun-method-kala-ghoda","title":"Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager | Sun 14th Jun | Method Kala Ghoda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVenue:\u003c\/strong\u003e Method Kala Ghoda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sunday, 14th June\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime: 5\u003c\/strong\u003e PM \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFree Registration, Pay What You Want At The Venue, Entry on a First Come First Served Basis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEveryone Wants a Village,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNobody Wants to Be a Villager\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eby Abhi Meer aka The Vigilante\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone wants a village, nobody wants to be a villager.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet’s sit with that sentence for minute. Because what it describes is not a personal failing but the defining social pathology of this moment. An entire cultural economy that is serving you belonging-as-product and community as content is actually adamant on brainwashing you further. All around, you’ll notice people expend considerable energy performing their investment in culture by posting it, wearing it and consuming it with visible intensity. But, very few people produce culture or even show it when it costs them something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs it turns out, the village has become symbolic but the villager is almost nowhere to be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Performing community’ isn’t exactly cynical. It’s far stranger and even more damaging than you might think. Why? Because the genuine hunger for connection has been completely routed through the logic of consumption. So much so that people have lost the capacity to distinguish between participating in something and purchasing a relationship to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlas, this workshop isn’t designed or optimised to make you feel better about that. Instead, it demands that we think through it with precision and criticality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe will be using three frameworks to accomplish this:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Alfred Adler's psychology of community.\u003cbr\u003e- Popular music cultures like hip-hop and techno.\u003cbr\u003e- B.R. Ambedkar's political philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe use those frameworks because the friction between them is exactly where the argument gets sharp enough to be useful. By the end you should know something more specific, not more comforting, about what the village is, who the villager actually is, and what it would genuinely cost to become one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Method Kala Ghoda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42262425010231,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0083\/6730\/8855\/files\/10_96457aad-08a1-48c9-81b0-738852d13e6d.png?v=1780902597","url":"https:\/\/themethod.art\/products\/everyone-wants-a-village-nobody-wants-to-be-a-villager-sun-14th-jun-method-kala-ghoda","provider":"Method","version":"1.0","type":"link"}