we live in a mediated world - william gibson in mark neale's no maps for these territories

marshall mcluhan's 'understanding media'

alvin toffler's third wave, the integrators of the second wave ...

chomsky -manufacturing consent

language as mind control

division of labour /speciallization as numbing of man towards the complexity of nature and thus beiing shoe-horned into one dimension

cities / countries as superorganisms

we are viruses with shoes



the leviathan..

british in afghanisthan  (1832, just interesting )
clippers to hong kong ..