Projects

Revolution Now! Podcast

Revolution Now! is a podcast hosted by author and filmmaker Peter Joseph. The show highlights the urgent challenges facing civilization today. Using a “structuralist” approach, Joseph draws from his 2017 book, The New Human Rights Movement, which serves as a framework for the podcast. The book explores topics like bigotry, ecological decline, and the systemic public health crisis driven by socioeconomic inequality. Unlike other programs addressing social issues, Revolution Now! aims to uncover the deeper, underlying causes of these problems, offering a broader perspective on our social struggles, along with solutions based on system science.

Lectures

Peter Joseph has given dozens of lectures on socioeconomic theory and activism over the past 17 years in numerous countries. His most recent, thorough lecture, covering the core principles of his research, is perhaps best embraced in his Nov. 8th, 2017 talk at the University of Santa Barbara.

The New Human Rights Movement is Peter Joseph’s most thorough treatment to date on the illness of modern society and how to change it.

“Peter Joseph is one of the great visionaries of our time. If there’s a beautiful future—and I think there will be—then his fingerprints will be all over it.”
-Marianne Williamson, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Since 9/11, security took over and retired human rights into a small closet. We need to get back to the issue of rights for all. Hopefully this important work will draw us closer to that reality and promise. Without economic realignment with nature to secure our habitat, along with conquering the sociological roots of fragmentation and bigotry, the human family is in peril.”
-Jack Healey, Head of Human Rights Action Center

“One of this generation’s greatest visionaries delivers a startling exposé about the violent oppression that defines our economic order, while issuing an urgent call for global activism to unite to change it. Amidst a deepening crisis of capitalism and inequality, coupled with an intensifying assault by the Empire’s elite, The New Human Rights Movement provides a crucial roadmap for the movement toward the next system.”
-Abby Martin, host of The Empire Files

“This book is a fascinating read, and a vitally important one for anyone who is tired of the status quo, seeks to understand why it is so entrenched, and wants to do something about it.”
-Robert Fantina, New York Journal of books

Zeitgeist Film Series

With over 30 awards, 500 million views and translated into 70+ languages, the Zeitgeist Film Series continues with its pending fourth installment, “Zeitgeist Requiem.”
Watch these work on various outlets, including Google Play, iTunes and via DVD. Learn more.

InterReflections, 2020

InterReflections is an experimental social commentary film. Structurally, it is a mixed-genre work, combining three interwoven timelines with elements of documentary, horror, science fiction satire, and more. Inspired by the avant-garde tradition of impressionistic abstraction and challenging convention, this 2-hour and 45-minute film is grounded in a distinct sociological perspective focused on public health and human well-being.

Based on the writer/director’s best-selling 2017 book, The New Human Rights Movement, InterReflections is a fantasy that extends the book’s academic content into a more creative form. Each of the three timeline layers serves both a content and aesthetic function. Watch Trailer

Culture In Decline, TV/Web Series

Started in 2013, Culture in Decline is a public access parody show, taking on serious social issues in a punk rock way.

Watch the first season on TUBI or get via DVD. In 2023, the docu-style format was reintroduced as a sub-series of shorts, titled “Yelling at the Wind.”

The Zeitgeist Movement

Started in 2009, The Zeitgeist Movement is a grassroots sustainability organization seeking economic change. Since then the movement has conducted thousands of public awareness events worldwide and was once deemed the largest grassroots movement in the world.

View our YouTube channel for educational media & read the book.

We are all part of The Zeitgeist Movement whether we like it or not. It’s up to us to engineer change.

Articles and Commentary

Substack: Analytical commentary on various social issues.

Medium: Transcripts of lectures & podcasts.

Zeitgeist Media Festival
(2011-2016)

Currently on hiatus, The Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival has been a powerful live expression of human potential, using the arts as a means for inspiring change. There is every interest to bring it back in the near future.