Article,
Sustainability: inefficiency or insufficiency
Design Philosophy Papers, 7 (1): 25--37 (2009)
DOI: 10.2752/144871309X13968682694830
Abstract
My opening remarks are general and sweeping. They are made in response to the silence that dominated the noise around me; the silence that the fear of appearing to be extreme creates; the silence that is present in habitual modes of thought whether idle chatter or seemingly erudite academic exposition. But above all, I am attempting to say things, from a position of concern, that I believe need saying.
Dislocated from the fundamental condition of exchange that is life, 'excess' and 'lack' name normative conditions that threaten. Seen at the level of global operability, excess and lack are equally products and causes of world making as unmaking, and as such they affirm that "modern man is threatened by a world created by himself."
