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Category Archives: Issue 1 – Alter Globalization
Miru Kim Takes Pictures
When I discovered Miru Kim’s arts, I became interested in how she created the idea of her arts project called Naked City Spleen, photographs composed out of hidden, abandoned caves, structures, surroundings or places and herself, naked, in them. The effect is enthralling – it shows the vulnerability, but at the same time the eroticism [...]
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How to Judge Globalism
What is globalisation? From where does it arise? How does its contemporary meaning transform our understanding of it? Commencing trough the earliest migrations of human knowledge and ideas, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen invites us on a journey across the different meanings and implications of ‘globalism’ over the centuries.
If for many, modern globalism might be understood [...]
Editorial I
Dear Friends,
To adequately start this first edition, we thought that we should give you a brief introduction to who exactly we are and why we think it is necessary to initiate this project. It is primarily important to understand that we are not professionals, and that we therefore count on your feedbacks and proposals to [...]
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How Food Shapes our Cities
Food pretty much lies at the heart of our human existence. Yet, it seems for many people that it takes a heart attack to recognize this importance. But the impact of food on people goes much beyond its nutritional dimension. The production, distribution and consumption of foods shape cultures, technologies, institutions, in short the history [...]
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Giving transition a shape
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. (Mahatma Gandhi)
When depicting our sustainable future, economist Latouche mentions de-growth, detoxication from economism, abandoning development-mania. He envisions a “downscaled” world where the pursuit of excessive economic growth is replaced by harmony and respect of the environment and the rest of [...]
Malawi windmill boy with big fans
For this first issue of the ‘Technology’ section of our maas-media newsletter, we chose an article that relates to alternative globalization in a very personal way…It is the story of William Kamkwamba, who at the age of 15 built a windmill out of scrap material in his village in Malawi, producing electricity for his family’s [...]
Invention of the Month
The Temple of a Million Bottles
Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew is also called ‘the Temple of a Million bottles’ and is a Buddhist temple in Thailand, in the Sisaket province, located 400 miles away from the capital, Bangkok. In 1984 the monks began their collection of beer bottles and soon they collected so many that [...]
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