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Leo Wijnhoven

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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About Leo Wijnhoven

My work is about social, economic, political and scientific developments in our post-modern world, particularly globalism (i.e. uniformity, but at the same time fragmentation - and resulting in identity problems), the free-market fundamentalism (including its mass consumption), the spectacle mediacracy, and about (the end of) Western modernism (and its hierarchical relationship to nature). I am not so much concerned with personal (free) expression as with communication (changing consciousness), which is why I use a broad range of styles (based on realism). 

My aim is to look critically at Western modernism (the duality of body and mind [= matter + energy], i.e. rationalism, materialism, mechanism, dehumanising, reductionism, linear thought, narrow mindedness, hierarchy, control and exploitation of nature [taking only, no balance or harmony], the cult of self, expansion/growth [the idea of progress]. I am looking for new assumptions and starting points where modernistic assumptions have failed.

In fact we already live for more than a century with the technical inventions coming from the theories of quantum mechanics, based on the opposite assumptions of modernism. However, we are still living with a modernistic mentality or mindset; global [vs. local], short term thinking [vs. long term], large scale [vs. small scale], exploitation [vs. balance], profit [vs. humanity], which is the root cause of many of our current problems (particularly climate change and the financial-economic system, i.e. political and social issues).

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