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Falling off the Ridge
As children, we were walking on a ridge of excitement, between boredom on one side and frustration on the other. Boredom arose if the games we were playing were repetitive or did not pose any...
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Artificiality
The topic of artificiality has many aspects, from arts and aesthetics to ecology and economy, from philosophy to politics. I have touched this topic here and there in some of my articles already and I...
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Information Storage Capacity and Creativity
Reblogged from Creativistic Philosophy: In my previous article, I have introduced some aspects of the theory of creativity developed by Kurt Ammon. In this article, I am going to develop these...
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What do plants, humans, economies and pots of heated water have in common?
It looks like this article is about science, but it is actually about economy and politics. This connection might seem surprising, but you are going to see it in a moment. Actually, it is about if or...
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Candle-Type Economies and Forest-Type Economies
We can distinguish two types of economies: candle-type economies and forest-type economies. The flame of a candle is a dissipative system. It is a dynamic system preserving its shape by dissipating...
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Past Meets Present: Shan Shui Environmental Art
Reblogged from Ekostories: Literally translated as “mountain water”, Shan Shui is a specific style of Chinese landscape art that rose to prominence in the 5th century during the Liu Song Dynasty...
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Preparing food
In pre-stone-age time, eating was simple: look for a fruit, pluck it, eat. In stone-age time, things started to become more complicated: Look for a fruit, pluck it. Take a stone knife, peel the...
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Reflexive Traffic Jams
You drive on a highway, and the traffic is dense, nearly a traffic jam. You notice that the cars on the next lane are overtaking you while your own lane is slow. You see a gap, take the opportunity...
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Old Songs
The history of what happened to the first nations of Australia at the hands of the Europeans is a sad and cruel one and it is not really over yet, a story of genocides, murder, enslavement,...
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Deportation – Friday Fictioneers
Sciencel fiction The door did not open. He looked on the screen of his glasses. “Access denied, please contact the caretaker service”. “Why can I not enter, it’s my apartment!” “Just follow the...
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Cosmetics
Reblogged from The Asifoscope: Dark skinned people are being told they have to get light-skinned. So they sell them bleaching creams. Light-skinned people are being told they have to get brown. So...
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Walking slowly
Reblogged from The Asifoscope: Coming from work, people pass me by with hurried steps. I’m walking slowly. They want to save time. Don’t want to waste it, 'cause the sofa is waiting. I am walking...
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Trans-Temporal Exploitation
Reblogged from Embassy of the Future: In the years before 2008, some bankers made tremendous profits. Where did all that money come from? One could say that it came from the future. The schemes used...
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Trading with the Future
Reblogged from Embassy of the Future: By shifting debts into the future to let later generations pay for them, we are exploiting the people of the future. Or are we? By shifting debts into the future,...
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Two Kinds of Debts
Reblogged from Embassy of the Future: A lot is written today about debts of governments. I want to make a short note on this topic (not referring to any particular state or government, but to all of...
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Custodian Capital
Reblogged from Embassy of the Future: How can the preservation of the world's ecosystems be financed? The solution might be simple: by selling them to future people. How could that work? We are used...
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Growth
Growth There is noise Leisure disappears Bellies fill with junk food The air fills up with drones Streets are jammed up with cars Our time is filled with dates and meetings Silence is filling with...
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The Dark Side of Beauty
There seems to be something like purely structural beauty. Some things, like an oil spill, can look beautiful as long as you don’t know or don’t think of what they are and what they mean. This is a...
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Horizons
When you press the light switch, the light goes on. Neither do you need to know were the cables are passing in the wall, nor where the electricity is coming from. In fact, you don’t need to know that...
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Technological Creativity
Originally posted on Creativistic Philosophy:Technology, from a simple stick or flake of flint to a modern computer or a bio-engineered organism, is part of human culture. At first glance, it seems to...
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