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The Greenhouse Effect: Eco-friendly glass architecture that incorporates flora
- golergka 9y ago> In places like San Francisco and Seattle it is no longer possible, if it ever was, to separate neo-fascism from neoliberal urban development caused or exacerbated by a growing tech industry, and its consequences of gentrification, homelessness, gender inequality and worker exploitation. I think that a generic leftist publication can't be told apart from satire about it at this point.
- whatshisface 9y agoIt sounds like the author is associating greenery with ill-gotten power, because historically people with ill-gotten power have spent a lot of money on greenery. Here's an alternate explanation for this: People with ill-gotten power belong to the larger category of people with power. People with power are able to spend money on beautiful things, and belong to the larger category of humans. Nearly every human likes greenery and sunlight, and these expensive glass buildings are full of both.
- yters 9y agoThe author is associating highly controlled cultivation of greenery with highly authoritarian power, and a view of human life as a resource to be controlled. Somewhat plausible: Microsoft is famously monopolistic, Apple has FoxConn, and oil fuels a whole lot of war. The wealth necessary to create such greenhouses largely comes from tech and oil.
- epistasis 9y agoIt's interesting, these types of associations based on vague connections have a really truthy feel to them. It's like a form of art that's meant to evoke a sense of truth in something that has little correspondence to the external world. I think there's something to appreciate there, as a type of performance, as long as one doesn't make decisions about the world that way.