By Mitchell Knauf By 1948, with the establishment of world trade organizations like the GATT, IMF, and World Bank, globalization took off in developing nations. Importing tariffs and trade barriers began to fall and Western economies observed a potential to grow. As Third World nations dropped their trade borders and companies of developed nations started to focus on profits … [Read more...] about Electronic Waste
Archives for November 2010
Confronting the Cat
By Brenda Yang Suffering proves to be a ubiquitous presence in both Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (Rebellion). Both pieces—one a play, the other a novel—demonstrate the futility of using grand systems and theories as a means to supplant or justify instances of profound individual suffering. In denying the details of suffering … [Read more...] about Confronting the Cat
Dumb It Down: Techno-Useless
By Nathan Rieder Albert Einstein once said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”. Some other guy undoubtedly once said “It’s trite and tacky to start a blog entry with a quote by Albert Einstein”. So be it. The veracity of this quote far outweighs any concerns I have about the stylistic taboo of opening with it. We live in a … [Read more...] about Dumb It Down: Techno-Useless