PLEASURE GARDEN THEORY
PLEASURE GARDENING (PG) is a transformative process through which people become more alive, more capable, more powerful together. It sees life’s meaning in becoming capable of new things, with others.
We see PLEASURE & JOY as not emotions but an increase in one’s power to affect and be affected.
PLEASURE GARDENING is the capacity to do and feel more. As such it is connected to creativity and the embrace of uncertainty. TRUE PLEASURE does not always feel comfortable or easy, as this force transforms and reorients us and our relationships.JOY in this work is not the same as the image of HAPPINESS offered by Empire. JOYFUL transformation might involve happiness, and it can also entail a whole range of feelings: ecstasy, grief, overwhelm, excitement, pain, eeriness. By Empire we mean stultifying effects of the organised destruction under which we live. That which attempts to render everything profitable and controllable, administers war with other forms of life, and imposes rhythms and rituals that are isolating and absorptive of our lifeforce. PLEASURE GARDENING seeks to re-enchant the world with new rhythms and rituals.