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The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems..
Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive "entropology" (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous.
Thus, anthropology is 'entropology', the science of the running down of things.
Both of these approaches began by challenging Lévi-Strauss's central conception of the relation of nature and culture, and of its role as the frame of his vision of anthropology as “entropology”, the reduction of culture to the status of an epiphenomenon of nature.
The kind of agency I though I had—and the ethnocentric bias that led me to it—is symptomatic of the narrative motif of entropology. Make no mistake—entrolpology is real.
In any case, the economic relationship between entropology and money in the last 250 years has to be studied in more scientific depth, but our methodical intuition points to an enigmatic monetary mechanism, concerning the entropy of our human economy.
The poem thematizes more than it enacts entropology, a contemplation of materials in process over time.
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Entropology means The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems..
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Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive "entropology" (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous.
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