Laura Hoptman, the retrospective's chief curator, interprets this composition, which Genzken called "Fuck the Bauhaus," as a critique of modernist hubris — a Teutonic ideal of control, order, and rationality that collapsed under Hitler like a house of cards.
Diamond suggests that same kind of collective rationality that has prevented small-scale collapse can prevent global collapse (2005, 522).
Friendly neighbours do not generally file genocide suits against one other, but more than two decades on from the violent collapse of Yugoslavia, rationality still occasionally gets overtaken by a wave of ill-feeling.
The fantasy that Enlightenment rationality will dominate human activity has collapsed before the brutal truth that those who seek to exploit human beings and nature commit collective suicide...
"The division between price and value has increasingly collapsed under the weight of economic rationality that spreads like wildfire across sectors of our existence," Conley writes.
Though the Cold War has collapsed and (as we see in the final chapter) algorithmic rationality was seriously challenged, this subversion and thinning of the social into the individual remains with us into the 21st century.
Trillions were wiped out and, as one of the cheerleaders for rationality, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, put it, "the whole intellectual edifice collapsed".By then, mainstream academic economists had long ago lost faith in market rationality, at least in its purest form.
Why the lay-up system was allowed to collapse and its history ignored illustrates important roles played by conflicting ideologies, bureaucratic rationality, and the inability to imagine an alternative way of solving fisheries management problems.
As for the idea that the bankers were dumb to get so carried away: "I am skeptical that readily avoidable mistakes, failures of rationality, or the intellectual deficiencies of financial managers whose IQs exceed my own were major factors in the economic collapse.
