Tag: Dirt
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [2] | Individual Ownership and The Root of Warfare
In the previous post I began to set out some further thoughts on gift, springing from my reading of Thorstein Veblen’s 1899 satire Conspicuous Consumption. I want to continue to develop the thoughts outlined there about the ‘leisure class’ that Veblen describes. Essentially, we might now see them as the aristocracy, or celebrities. They are…
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The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [1] | Christian Leadership and the Leisure Class
As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a novel for the past few months, playing with themes, among others, of the links between identity and consumption. One of the books I’ve picked up to feed the furnace has been Thorstein Veblen’s 1899 satire Conspicuous Consumption (an excerpt from his longer work The…
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Post-Christian Dirt | Physical and Unspoken Boundaries
If you’ve read the book, you’ll have picked up on the theme of ‘dirt’, and its place in forming communities. Deciding what’s acceptable or unacceptable, what’s ‘in’ or ‘out’, what’s ‘dirty’ or ‘clean’ is a way that a society creates its identity… And we only need look at passages like Leviticus 12ff to see just…
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First Fruits
Still to come: gooseberries, loganberries, carrots, parsnips, peas, beetroot, asparagus, Jerusalem artichoke, onions, garlic… Technorati Tags: Allotment, Compost Christ
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Coal | Does Urban Development Require Exploitation?
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I’ve been reading ‘Coal – A Human History‘ recently. It’s a fascinating look at the profound impact coal has – and is still going to have – on our history. Used as a soft jewelry stone by the romans, it was only later taken up as fuel in London because of the rapidly retreating forests…
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Blog Censorship – Be honest
Do you censor comments? While I do delete the occasional bit of spam and any ‘double comments’, I don’t ever censor comments (and thankfully at the moment I’m not getting enough spam to have to pre-moderate). But I’ve noticed others do… I’ve had comments of mine deleted/adjusted, for reasons I’m genuinely not sure about, and…