Stupid on the carpet floor
Jul. 8th, 2007 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giantsloth(Extra credit to folks who get the subject line without googling.)
Where does cooperative capitalism end and predatory capitalism begin? Free market worshippers would argue that such a distinction is meaningless and impossible. In the predatory department, I submit this story from outlookindia.com on the plundering of Corbusier artifacts from Chandigarh.
Sure, antique dealers need to make a living. But exploiting ignorance to make ridiculous profits is, well, ridiculous.
Chandigarh is of particular interest because, until his tragic death in an airplane accident in 1950, Matthew Nowicki was designing the master plan for that city. He is perhaps best known here for the hyperbolic paraboloid structure of Dorton Arena. Nowicki's importance to architecture and design has yet to be fully documented. For now, there are a few articles, such as this one from Wikipedia. Does anyone read Polish?
Where does cooperative capitalism end and predatory capitalism begin? Free market worshippers would argue that such a distinction is meaningless and impossible. In the predatory department, I submit this story from outlookindia.com on the plundering of Corbusier artifacts from Chandigarh.
Sure, antique dealers need to make a living. But exploiting ignorance to make ridiculous profits is, well, ridiculous.
Chandigarh is of particular interest because, until his tragic death in an airplane accident in 1950, Matthew Nowicki was designing the master plan for that city. He is perhaps best known here for the hyperbolic paraboloid structure of Dorton Arena. Nowicki's importance to architecture and design has yet to be fully documented. For now, there are a few articles, such as this one from Wikipedia. Does anyone read Polish?
