6 days ago by Lucinda

No that isn’t a typo in the title to this piece. I love giving gifts, but what I am seriously not fond of is giving gifts because it is expected, a pastime that we pursue with relentless obsession during the month of December. As Genevieve Vaughan writes in For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchan ...

RECLAIMING MEDUSA - lucindamarshall.com

6 days ago by Peggy Nelson

‘Tis the season when we look down from the mediascape onto Bedford Falls. Not for the usual reason. We’re not waiting on any wings. But we are due to be promoted, to consciousness that is; we’ve been waiting on the Singularity. It’s wonderful, maybe, but it’s not life yet. But now it seems that Geor ...

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7 days ago by Amy Lenzo

The World Cafe Needs Your Help Right Away to Keep the Gift Traveling: An Exciting Opportunity A Message from Juanita Brown and David Isaacs The World Cafe Community Foundation has been generously offered a special matching donation of up to $25,000 US dollars to support: A younger leader to serve as ...

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7 days ago by David Hodges

In this post I talked about a possible order for a ritual gathering of the community. One of the activities mentioned there is “Presentation of Gifts (Arts, Techne, and/or Spiritual Discourse)”. This deserves more explanation. Living in community means that one lives in an economy of gifts that is c ...

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8 days ago by montsamu

So, a quick unorganized mini-rant about the gift economy and BULL SPEC: We have three "exemptions" right now: We pay advances on content. We pay for printing and shipping. Due to #2: While we're "pay what you want" on all e-book and audiobooks, but, since for us physical printing and shipping cost p ...

montsamu musings - montsamu.blogspot.com · 1 reference

12 days ago by megumiburr

This document so well imparts what I am up to when I write about creating prosperity, I am simply offering a link so you can experience it yourself: http://www.globalsufficiency.org (The homepage currently features a link to “Celebrating the Holidays in Sufficiency.”) (If it has been some time since ...

Megumi's Prosperity Blog - megumiburr.wordpress.com

14 days ago by cybercommunism

So the idea of cyber-communism goes a bit further. You may be inclined to wonder why it is that there is no class struggle in the electronic world? Well, the idea of the gift economy may help you out here. It was Barbrook that said ”Under capitalism, most goods and services are produced as commoditi ...

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16 days ago by girlwarrior

I haven’t actually seen the movie Pay It Forward, in which a young boy comes up with a plan for direct action and encourages people to do 3 good things for other people, creating a “charity pyramid scheme,” but I’m intrigued by the concept. So when I saw that Eco Yogini was inviting readers to parti ...

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21 days ago by tracycochran

Happy Thanksgiving! I recently learned that when the Puritans landed in Massachusetts, they discovered that the Indians had a strange feeling about the giving and receiving of gifts. Having experienced nothing like it, they misunderstood it, ran it down. In 1764, when Thomas Hutchinson wrote his his ...

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22 days ago by socialcapital

The Wall Street Journal reports that the number of volunteer editors on Wikipedia is dropping. Entities such as Wikipedia or Linux have always been a bit of a mystery to economists as to why people with great knowledge donate their time to write articles or software. Some are motivated by pure altru ...

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