Syncretism is the true currency of our time. Living in London, this is more than an erudite remark, is an everyday experience, as this photo taken in a massive technology store in central London shows. The old complain by Carl Sagan that… Read More ›
Society
Uberize the economy and the social fabric
The Emerging Platform Economy is the new way to do business. Legacy business models are asymptotically doomed. But: What shape will the elimination of the information brokering layer assume? The p2p ubiquity – p2p credit, Hayek Money, p2p economy with… Read More ›
Chomsky & Hobsbawm or: Homage to Catalonia
Let’s start again with late Tony Judt’s comment about Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, where one can read the following: Eric Hobsbawm is decidedly a man of order, a “Tory communist,” as he puts it. Communist intellectuals were never “cultural dissidents”; and… Read More ›
On mandarins and epistemological fallacies
Reading late Tony Judt’s appraisal of Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, one meets a very interesting remark: Eric Hobsbawm is decidedly a man of order, a “Tory communist,” as he puts it. Communist intellectuals were never “cultural dissidents”; and Hobsbawm’s scorn for… Read More ›
“To enquire and to create”
There used to be an old concept in classical philosophy, the concept of the full and meaningful life, creative and inquisitive. German classical philosophy recovered that from the ancient Greek civilization, in particular from Ⅴ century Athens. Unfortunately, that was… Read More ›
“The Look of Silence” and Antonio Gramsci
Watching the stunning documentary “The Look of Silence” by Joshua Oppenheimer is a moving experience. Of almost enlightening nature. The titles at the end, full of “Anonymous” references, are a powerful reminder that the grim events of Indonesian genocide of… Read More ›
Artificial Photosynthesis: some social implications of technology
The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenathen invented the first historic monotheism, according to Freud’s Moses and Monotheismus (1939). Sensibly, the sun was the God, worshipped as the true generator of life in this planet. Everything we have depends on the constant flow… Read More ›