Tag: Gift
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Art as Pork Belly | The Gift and the End of ‘The Original’
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Jonny has been posting some great stuff on The Gift. And tonight on Front Row – BBC Radio 4’s flagship arts programme – there was a great piece about the inflated price of art. One expert made it clear that the people buying Pollocks for $140 million, and Warhols for tens of millions have one…
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Insert Coin [3] | Final Fantasy
[Level 1] [Level 2] Emerging Church: Game or Ritual? As The Believer points out, one aspect of games such as Dungeons and Dragons is that of fantasy. When you enter a game, you are entering ‘role play’ – becoming someone else. Becoming a fantasy self. This is something I have critiqued in more detail here.…
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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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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…