Entropy…

Both what you run from and what you yearn for are within you

Archive for March, 2007

Economic Behaviour & Thought Provoking Entropy | 27 Mar 2007

Mankind has never been healthier, wealthier or freer. Surprised?

Environmentalists and globalization foes are united in their fear that greater population and consumption of energy, materials, and chemicals accompanying economic growth, technological change and free trade—the mainstays of globalization—degrade human and environmental well-being.
Indeed, the 20th century saw the United States’ population multiply by four, income by seven, carbon dioxide emissions by nine, use of [...]

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Poetry & Sprituality Entropy | 24 Mar 2007

Rivers

Rivers hardly ever run in a straight line
Rivers are willing to take ten thousand meanders
and enjoy every one
and grow from every one.
When they leave a meander,
they are always more
than when they entered it.
When rivers meet an obstacle,
they do not try to run over it.
They merely go around
but they always get to the other side.
Rivers accept [...]

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Books & Literature Entropy | 24 Mar 2007

Huckleberry Who ?

The University of Paris literature professor Pierre Bayard’s best seller How to Talk About Books That You Haven’t Read is flying off the shelves in France. Not only does Bayard tell readers how to fake literary orgasm, but he admits to giving lectures on books he hasn’t bothered to read. I’m sure Bayard’s book will [...]

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Philosophy & Thought Provoking Entropy | 08 Mar 2007

Jean Baudrillard, Critic & Theorist of Hyperreality

The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real.

The French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in blockbuster movies like “The Matrix,” died yesterday in Paris. He was [...]

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