Posts Tagged ‘Capitalism’
Homo Economicus
October 14th, 2009 by lifeproof
This is not a new term, it is almost as old as Darwin‘s evolution theory and even older than Veblen‘s theory of the leisure class. The term just popped into my mind last night walking down the street thinking about survival of the fittest in the urban jungle and that “fitness” does not have to [...]
Tags: Capitalism, Charles Darwin, consumerism, Darwin, dasein, economy, evolution, homo economicus, John Stuart Mill, Michel Foucault, phenomenology, primacy of economics, rags to riches, the medium is the message, theory of the leisure class, Thorsten Veblen, urban jungle
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
Somniloquy: Genocide before the Consciousness of the Genocide
September 21st, 2009 by lifeproof
The Armenian Genocide–or from the other side: “Forced Emigration of Armenians” (Ermeni Tehciri)–has been a long debate and struggle from both sides of the conflict, since the Holocaust! There is a significant demand from Turkey to acknowledge it as genocide and reconcile with its (as they are the successors of the Ottoman Empire’s debts, losses [...]
Tags: Armenian diaspora, Armenian Genocide, Balkans, Capitalism, Caucasus, consciousness, Crete, First World War, genocide, Holocaust, Izmir, Karl Marx, Language and the Symbolic Power, Marxism, Pierre Bourdieu, pre-Capitalist, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, Wilson's Fourteen Principles, Woodrow Wilson, World War 1, WWI
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles
The Art of Burning the Planet
June 1st, 2009 by lifeproof
Global Warming has been perceived as a mambo-jambo, a conspiracy theory, a myth that was produced by political geeks until as recent as last year maybe. For some others it was a brutal outcome of the capitalist system, the industrial modern world, the consumer society. Today, at the point that we have reached, it is [...]
Tags: bamboo t-shirt, Capitalism, carbon footprint, carbon monoxide, consumerism, freegan, global warming, go green, iPhone, McDonald's, Starbucks, Sunac, tell6.com, think green, Walmart, Whole Foods Market, zipcar
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