Tag: Dirt
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Soliton II | The Other
Si has posted some reflections on Soliton, and makes some excellent points about the terrible way in which The Bridge community have been treated by the local city council. A pregnant mother. Homeless. On Christmas Eve. Would your church have turfed her out? They didn’t, and they’ve been turfed too. But their mission of hospitality…
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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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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…
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Noise Mapping | Sound Pollution | Aural vs Visual
Via TimeOut, the London Noise Map. It’s a pretty sophisticated resource, with maps produced by postcode, time of day, major roads excluded or included etc. What’s interesting about the article that accompanied the piece in TimeOut is that it showed that Londoners find road noise to be their great source of irritation. In a world…