The Misplaced Method (Paperback)
Ashoka Kumar Singh
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Add to basketPaperback. The Misplaced Method is a structural inquiry into why modern life, despite unprecedented intelligence and technological power, feels persistently strained. It argues that our relentless drive to improve efficiency and maximise output is a misplaced method, one that overlooks the complexity of human existence.The book examines a subtle misplacement at the heart of contemporary culture-the confusion of control with coherence. From individual experience to ethics, institutions, technology, and ecological crisis, it argues that problems scale outward from a misunderstanding of intelligence itself. The book offers no techniques and no ideology. Instead, it clarifies that perceptual clarity allows order to emerge without increasing control."An incisive structural inquiry into modern strain." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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The Misplaced Method is a structural inquiry into why modern life, despite unprecedented intelligence and technological power, feels persistently strained. It argues that our relentless drive to improve efficiency and maximise output is a misplaced method, one that overlooks the complexity of human existence.
The book examines a subtle misplacement at the heart of contemporary culture—the confusion of control with coherence. From individual experience to ethics, institutions, technology, and ecological crisis, it argues that problems scale outward from a misunderstanding of intelligence itself.
The book offers no techniques and no ideology. Instead, it clarifies that perceptual clarity allows order to emerge without increasing control.
“An incisive structural inquiry into modern strain.”
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