Shannon M. Mussett, "Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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Entropy and Entropics
Entropics is an analysis of the earliest forms of the appearance of Entropia in ancient Greek, which we find in Homer and like Ettipus and colonists. And so it's sort of like, wow, there's actually this kind of insight that this journey through this idea through all of these ideas that we can see in Entropics brought me to. The study of entropy shows you nobody's going to benefit from allowing vulnerable populations simply to suffer and be chewed up by this acceleration as attitude of capitalism. No one benefits from that. If rich people end up building bunkers because they know that the climate is destroyed, that's not a better life for them either.
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