Entropy…

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

Archive for the Tag 'Mass Culture'

Economic Behaviour &Globalisation &Thought Provoking Entropy | 16 May 2008

Fear of Not Having Had..

This is thought provoking article published in recent Orion Magazine on social consumption hysteria. The first fully enclosed shopping mall in America, and probably the world, was the Southdale Center in Edina, outside Minneapolis. Built in 1956, it is credited to Austrian immigrant architect Victor Gruen, who wanted to re-create the intimate scale and feel [...]

Life &Thought Provoking Entropy | 17 Jan 2008

In Praise of Melancholy

We’re in peril of losing a major cultural force, the muse behind much art, poetry, and music. We are blithely getting rid of melancholia..-Pl care to read & ponder thought provoking article by Eric Wilson published in The Chronicle Review In Praise of Melancholy American culture’s overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a [...]