Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

Hippie: A Nomadic Information System

Hippie [1] is an internet-based guide offering added value to current information facilities by supporting the multiplicity of activities during the preparation, the execution and the evaluation of a museum/fair visit. The process orientation is made possible by the nomadic characteristic [2] of the system that allows the user to have access to his or her personal information space from all pla...

The Struggle for Existence

"It is in the nature of things" is surely, today, just as good an explanation of a biological phenomenon as it ever was; and now, as always, it is singularly unilluminating. That some of the problems to which such an explanation is usually given are susceptible to analysis appears obvious; at least an approach can be made toward segregating the many factors which, acting independently ox throug...

Modernism in the Animal Trap?

Utopia on the Rocks

Analysing American society and finding little hope for it has almost become a 'favourite sport' for sociologists. Another book on this theme illustrates the strongly-felt and yet somehow 'manufactured' crisis of conscience in the USA.

Women and Psychiatric Modernism

he therapies of Rivers and Yealland represented the two modes of English psychiatric modernism which would affect women both inside and outside the asylum from the 1920s to the 1960s: psychoanalysis, which offered the twentieth century's most influential theory of femininity and female sexuality; and traditional medical psychiatry, which made rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technolog...