Alienation
A PALLID HOPELESSNESS: REFLECTIONS ON ALIENATION
Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness…. -Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of …
The Work and Life of Women: The Dynamics of Individualism and Power
[Note: This essay builds on work that was published in Rosalind Sun and William Bergquist, The Word for World is …
How to Turn Loneliness into a Multi-Trillion Dollar Business: A Perspective on China from the Writings of Erich Fromm
This essay specifically focuses on the writings of Erich Fromm from a social application perspective, using China’s Singles Day as an example.
The New Johari Window #4: Three Perspectives on Human Relationships
I specifically look at human interaction and the Johari Window from three perspectives—three ways in which to appreciate the deep nature of interpersonal relationships.
Aliens or Alienation: The Commoditized Creature that Walk among Us
Alienation is inherently widespread in capitalist society. This occurs because capitalism necessarily renders not only products but also people and our meanings and relationships into things to be instrumentally exchanged.
The Postmodern Condition: I. A World of Paradox, Contradiction and Change
What are the paradoxes, whip lashing contradictions and dizzying changes of which our world is made?