From: Michael Eldred (artefact@T-ONLINE.DE)
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 06:15:10 EST
Cologne 27-Jan-2006 To open the tenth anniversary of the artefact web site 1996-2006, here's two new articles for your consideration: ‘Questioning the Earth’s Value - Including a proposal for a capitalist carbon sink industry’ http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/qstnerth.html Abstract: Putting the Earth’s value into question means asking what is meant by a value of the Earth. How is the Earth valued in a global market economy, and how could this value be put into relation to the Earth’s finiteness that sets a limit on how we humans can live on Earth without endangering the very basis of life on the planet? The final section puts forward a proposal based on an understanding of the Earth’s valuation through ground-rent for developing a capitalist carbon sink industry to come to terms with ever-growing carbon dioxide emissions. The concept of ground-rent developed in classical political economy and subjected to critique by Marx is the key to grasping the value of the Earth under that constellation of being called capitalism. The valuation of the Earth via the category of ground-rent has ramifications and potential applications far beyond practically dealing with carbon dioxide emissions. ‘The Principle of Reason and Justice: Leaping from the Ground through Leibniz, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to Anaximander and the Groundlessness of Interplay’ http://www.webcom.com/artefact/untpltcl/prncprsn.html Abstract: The principle of reason is the ground in the modern age for the domination of the mathematical natural sciences over beings as a whole. Returning to the time before Plato and Aristotle to Anaximander, however, loosens this ground by revealing a cast of being as an interplay with one another of all beings. This allows being to be thought as a question of justice rather than as a totalizing causal hierarchy. You'll find the full artefact inventory under: http://www.webcom.com/artefact/artfinvn.html Good reading! Michael _-_-_-_-_-_-_- artefact text and translation _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- made by art _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ _-_-_-_- artefact@t-online.de _-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Dr Michael Eldred -_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
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