Globalisation &Thought Provoking Entropy | 31 Aug 2010
The relationship to the world that the modern science fostered and shaped now appears to have exhausted its potential. It is increasingly clear that, strangely, the relationship is missing something. It fails to connect with the most intrinsic nature of reality and with natural human experience. It is now more of a source of disintegration [...]
Economic Behaviour &Globalisation Entropy | 26 May 2010
The idea is essentially repulsive of a society only held together by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interests. – John Stuart Mill As always incisive & eloquent piece by NYT Columnist Roger Cohen .. Pl read on .. Toilets and Cellphones I was intrigued to learn the other day that there are [...]
Economic Behaviour &Globalisation Entropy | 19 Apr 2010
This is an evocative essay by Stuart Kauffman a respected author, experimental and theoretical biologist, on senseless lunacy of money & greed. Makes us wonder, what kind of a society we exist in, who makes the rules and how one makes money, without really earning it … How powerless & helpless we have become as [...]
Books &Globalisation Entropy | 15 Apr 2010
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the “pluralistic,” displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place. —Wendell Berry Wish to share – A timeless meditation on art [...]
Architecture & Design &Globalisation Entropy | 22 Mar 2009
Worldchanging.com is enlightening website to explore.. We all need to be aware and contribute our bit for the cause of our own future and planet .. Our things define us. What we buy, what we use, what we keep and throw away, what we waste, and what we save: the stuff that surrounds us and [...]
Economic Behaviour &Globalisation Entropy | 10 Oct 2008
I have been occasionally reproved of article cut-and-paste on my blog. However, wish to clarify, that they reflect what I feel strongly about and moves me deeply, which I feel compelled to reproduce and share, with like-minded readers. Another instance of such a thought-provoking feature by Arun Maira whose depth is admirable..is being reproduced City’s [...]