Author: KB
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This Blog is Now on Holiday
Tuscany coast, then down to Cornwall. Back beginning of August. Catch you soon 😉
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [5] | Power Discourses | Mission | Plunder
[ Gift, Market and Plunder [1] ] | [ Gift, Market and Plunder [2] ] [ Gift, Market and Plunder [3] ] | [ Gift, Market and Plunder [4] ] In the third post in this series – in which I am exploring an update to the ideas of gift presented in the book –…
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How many EC Bloggers Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
In the great tradition of such things, I propose: 1 To change the bulb and post about it 315 To lurk around and make no comment 2 To propose a stack of del.icio.us tags the poster should have put in 16 To complain he should have used categories 4 To flag up a conference on…
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Glass Works
Just wanted to flag up Saga Arpino’s site cataloguing and promoting her work. A recent post-grad of the Royal College of Art, Saga is fine artist, a Vaux accomplice, and her award-winning work in glass is fantastic. Order some for your space now. Technorati Tags: Architecture, Art, Glass, London
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [4] | Urban Implications
[ Gift, Market and Plunder [1] ] | [ Gift, Market and Plunder [2] ] | [ Gift, Market and Plunder [3] ] OK, sorry if the last post was hard work. But sometimes you have to mine deep… To summarize for those who didn’t make it: Veblen identified the ‘leisure class’ as those who…
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [3] | Relationships and Transactions | Hunters and Plunderers
[ Gift, Market and Plunder [1] ] | [ Gift, Market and Plunder [2] ] In the previous two posts I’ve begun reflecting on Thorstein Veblen’s Conspicious Consumption thesis about ‘the leisure class’ – a group of people he identifies who feel that work is somehow below them: ‘The upper (leisure) classes are by custom…