the erotic life of property
how’s that for an attention grabber?
In his brilliant book The Gift: The Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde points to two types of economies. In a commodity (or exchange) economy, status is accorded to those who have the most. In a gift economy, status is accorded to those who give the most to others.
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I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Dear Charles,
I read on a list on the internet of 20 Things We Learned Were Wrong This Year that the canard about drinking 8 pints of water daily was wrong. It also said that tea and coffee counted as liquid where i’d been told they didn’t. [...]
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