sábado, 31 de janeiro de 2015

The environmental clock is silently ticking in after-postmodern

Since the clocks have batteries they are mostly silent. Before of it, they received energy from our hands, but in postmodern times they lost that singular ticking, and that thing was a demonstration of postmodern efficiency. Now, in after-postmodern times, all that could be scientifically predicted became strange in a way that the former efficiency is not anymore sufficiently efficient… But clocks and watches are still silent and we cannot hear the ticking of the environmental clock warning for the dangers of present and future… What were only feared in postmodern times nowadays are happening more and more, and an inefficient discussion about whom to blame, the men or the nature, continues…
We are talking about time and it is about time to do something about it…
Even there is some probability of global warming to be just caused by nature itself, pollution is stronger and has its consequences. Debates are necessary but not sufficient to solve problems if nobody does anything.
People like to talk about paradigm changing, it sounds beautiful, but few walk some step ahead… and the environmental clock is silently ticking…  

quinta-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2015

After-postmodern and “metaglobalization”

Globalization of economy achieved its acme in the end of the 20th century, although some kind of global economy existed already as we can see for example with the international crisis of 1929.
Anyway, the so much praised “globalization” was that one of the pragmatic “postmodern period” and that is “a globalization” still in some way around… Nonetheless, with the end of the postmodern efficiency and the economic crisis going on, maybe the “main globalization” is the “net globalization” under cybernetics.
At the same time, after the falling of the Berlin Wall, several countries started to divide, searching for cultural roots and links stronger than some political or even economic relations that worked under some restraint. This kind of “geocultural” transformation spread over the world and manifold people are still looking to find their “collective intersubjective meaning” that binds them. So, under the view of Complexity, we can see intersections among several factors: net globalization, conventional globalization, arising of cultural roots, “democracy” of mobile phone, global environmental crisis, etc… Maybe we could call this a kind of “metaglobalization”…