Our world is confronted by a number of crises - global warming, entrenched
poverty and military conflicts such as the war on terror. While these crises
appear disconnected, this study examines how they are both interrelated and
dominate our experiences of modernity. As these crises are often aggravated
by the very solutions proposed to solve them, this experience of modernity
can be described as pathological. Pathological modernity is driven by a
frontier disposition that encloses and commodifies non-commercial spaces
(or commons), and creates a crisis of scarcity. This commodification...