The “Shopping Citadel” and the “Shopping Arena” are designed to serve as Production for Dasein’s antitheses to the Shopping Mall and Shopping Center, the latter of which are manifestations of the first and second Modes of Production. The economic capabilities,… Read More ›
A quarter of Section Five for The Third Place (1st Ed.) has been finished. I managed to acquire some new information on Viktor Gruen that I felt should be brought to the attention of the ARPLAN Blog. It’s one of… Read More ›
The rise of American Suburbia after 1945 saw a significant number of Americans moving away from the cities and into emerging communities of single-family homes. The automobile allowed millions to live in American Suburbia, commute to their workspaces in the… Read More ›
Unlike the “Video Game Industry,” a subset of the Work-World Domain pertaining to computer software development, the “Gaming Industry” generally refers to Enterprises devoted to gambling. While most economic activities attached to Domains in the Work-World will change the conduct… Read More ›
The discussion of the Total Educational Effort within the State of Total Mobilization has been building toward the articulation of a new institution. Based on the information provided in the last four Sections, we now have a number of specified… Read More ›
I managed to create three new diagrams for The Third Place (1st Ed.). These three were designed to provide further clarification on what has been written. Those are the not the only ones that I intend to create before I… Read More ›
I am going to be busy for the next several days. There will be no new Entries for The Third Place (1st Ed.) or any additional Blog posts, aside from the usual Update posts. Until I am able to get… Read More ›
No economic activity, be it a simple errand or a complex undertaking, can ever be truly perfected by Technology alone. An Economic Planner’s performance can only be enhanced by sophisticated automated technologies and information technologies, the deployments of which must… Read More ›
1968 should be remembered as a significant year in the development of Student Economy and Student Government, at least in the Western world. It was around this year that the various movements related to the Counterculture were fast approaching their… Read More ›
The “Gestalt (Figure) of the Arbeiter,” the entity well-attuned to the Work-Standard, naturally arises from the introduction of the Sociable Currency. The Market/Mixed Economy and Fractional-Reserve Banking System are replaced by the VCS Planned/Command Economy and Reciprocal-Reserve Banking System. The… Read More ›
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