Asian Eels and Global Warming

“We could look for the beauty, very broadly understood, natural and social, in the outcomes of our interactions with the environment, and we could try to work on and amplify that when we find it”

“But just about everywhere in time and space out-side the reach of industrial capitalism, the blueprint for the engagement with the environment has been de Kooning not Mondrian, or has at least left some space for de Kooning”

(Pickering, 2005, p 41)

Amplification! God complex (Tim Hartford). Tim Hartford discusses complexity and how the world we live in appears to deal with, or not, levels of complexity. Pickering interests me in that he appears to relate semiotic interpretation of this same principle (God Complex) to Global Warming. Pickering uses Mondrian juxtaposed with de Kooning and relates to amplification through image making. This principle very much ties into my previous posts, aligning with Pickering’s ideas on hard sciences in relation to humanities, better ways to deal with complexity.