worldsystemA tag:worldsystema.com,2012-07-08://25 the architecture of anarchy : the work of christopher alexander and the nature of order Movable Type Pro 5.13-en coming out of a depression - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.874 2012-07-10T13:12:28Z 2012-07-10T13:19:14Z for the first time i think i have suffered a mild bout of depression, in contrast to a deep clinical one, thank god it was and is horrible reading manage your mind helped but it took me some time to... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
for the first time i think i have suffered a mild bout of depression, in contrast to a deep clinical one, thank god

it was and is horrible

reading manage your mind helped but it took me some time to get to it and the process continues

]]> i gave up history in the first year - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.872 2012-07-07T22:38:41Z 2012-07-07T22:51:54Z probably more than 45 million people died during the great leap forward 1958-62 a man-made version of hell... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
mao's great famine

probably more than 45 million people died during the great leap forward 1958-62

a man-made version of hell

]]> a rose by rose - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.871 2012-07-01T16:21:57Z 2012-07-01T16:29:25Z sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
a rose by rose

]]> as an antidote to reading the four horsemen - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.870 2012-06-21T17:33:26Z 2012-06-21T17:50:15Z "Everything is water and the world is full of gods" Thales karen armstrong makes the case for an apophatic theology that seeks god in the unknown and this ineffable aspect can link it to mysticism just wondered how much... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
the case for god

"Everything is water and the world is full of gods" Thales

karen armstrong makes the case for an apophatic theology that seeks god in the unknown and this ineffable aspect can link it to mysticism

just wondered how much theology richard dawkins has read

]]> let us have done with all objections to anarchy - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.869 2012-06-07T15:27:36Z 2012-06-28T16:32:13Z 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of all property of all emigrants... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/ the communist manifesto

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of all property of all emigrants and rebels.

that will do for a start

saw an interview with eric hobsbawm and bought a foot of his books

]]> missed a whole book - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.868 2012-05-20T06:15:00Z 2012-06-28T15:58:25Z i was probably being distracted by life and missed "a new theory of urban design" when it came out in 1987. i can't quite believe it but just knowing it's title and reading nearly everything else from the center... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/ a new theory of urban design

i was probably being distracted by life and missed "a new theory of urban design" when it came out in 1987. i can't quite believe it but just knowing it's title and reading nearly everything else from the center for environmental structure, i assumed i had read it

an account of an experiment simulating the creation of urban fabric guided by wholeness

the theory is completely incompatible with present-day city planning, zoning, urban real estate, economics and law

it will require a revolution to implement any of it

]]> influences - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.867 2012-05-15T07:32:56Z 2012-05-15T08:19:22Z finally got round to reading the copy of influences that colin ward gave me when he visited me above dad's place of the nine people he presents william godwin mary wollstonecraft alexander herzen peter kropotkin martin buber william richard... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/ influences

finally got round to reading the copy of influences that colin ward gave me when he visited me above dad's place

of the nine people he presents


william godwin

mary wollstonecraft

alexander herzen

peter kropotkin

martin buber

william richard lethaby

walter segal

patrick geddes

paul goodman


i was aware of only four

on the last page he posits the idea shared by many of them "that the field we choose to call town and country planning was not a profession but a concern of every citizen"

in reference to paul goodman he states "There are more ideas to the page in Communitas than in any other book i have read" and consequently there is a copy heading towards the goobs shelf as i write

part 2 in praise of colin ward

]]> the source of all evil - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.866 2012-05-12T14:29:10Z 2012-05-15T08:20:54Z in "debt: the first 5000 years" david graeber, an anthropologist, considers the economic myth of barter and concludes that money is the result of the abuse of power backed up by violence "The real question now is how to... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/ debt

in "debt: the first 5000 years" david graeber, an anthropologist, considers the economic myth of barter and concludes that money is the result of the abuse of power backed up by violence

"The real question now is how to ratchet things down a bit, to move toward a society where people can live more by working less. I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren't hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they're probably improving the world more than we acknowledge. Maybe we should think of them as pioneers of a new economic order that would not share our current one's penchant for self-destruction."

amen

]]> never too late to start a nai zindagi - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.865 2012-05-01T20:51:13Z 2012-05-12T15:51:44Z nai zindagi naya jeevan was the first asian language program on british television in urdu and hindi it means new life, new way... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
nai zindagi naya jeevan was the first asian language program on british television

in urdu and hindi it means new life, new way

]]> help, i am trapped in a soap opera - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.864 2012-04-15T12:06:42Z 2012-04-16T19:03:17Z belle just pulled the perfect cuntish stunt learned suckling her mother's tit, of telling me she was not home educating as dominique was waiting in the car to pick up rose i was total crap and kicked the house door... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
belle just pulled the perfect cuntish stunt learned suckling her mother's tit, of telling me she was not home educating as dominique was waiting in the car to pick up rose

i was total crap and kicked the house door closed on her and it took me an hour to not burn all trace of her left in the building and to calm down enough for noe to agree that i was right even when my intensity ray was turned off and i was facing away from him and standing quietly by myself in the garden

meanwhile, eco just phoned to say he was popping round. yippee!

i swear on my mother's grave, not that i know its location, that as long as i live i will never speak to belle again and i say that as odin's fucking paki dad

]]> surely this ... - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.863 2012-03-26T17:35:45Z 2012-04-15T12:41:49Z belle has moved in with me after some persuasion noe and rose agree with this course of action and in her heart so does belle i am odin's dad, that's thor's dad's dad... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
belle has moved in with me after some persuasion

noe and rose agree with this course of action and in her heart so does belle

i am odin's dad, that's thor's dad's dad

]]> my body armour is complete - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.862 2012-03-23T07:08:14Z 2012-03-23T07:08:54Z sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/

]]> in memoriam - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.860 2012-03-20T00:44:24Z 2012-03-31T09:32:59Z beatrice ( - 19-03-12 ) reading to rose in the kitchen at paradise shacks in petham... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
beatrice and rose.png

beatrice ( - 19-03-12 ) reading to rose in the kitchen at paradise shacks in petham

]]> ca audio/video portal - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.857 2012-03-19T22:23:28Z 2012-03-21T06:52:59Z here be all the links i can find please add more... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/
here be all the links i can find

please add more

]]> a book from nothing - worldsystemA tag:www.worldsystema.com,2012:/worldsystema//11.855 2012-03-11T15:22:57Z 2012-03-12T04:30:52Z perhaps because its not the first thing i've read on the topic "We live at a very special time ... the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time." is as good... sajjad http://www.worldsystema.com/ a universe from nothing

perhaps because its not the first thing i've read on the topic

"We live at a very special time ... the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time." is as good as lawrence m krauss gets and richard dawkins qoutes it again in the self congratulatory afterword

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