Postcapitalism is not an expanding sharing economy.
Postcapitalism is an expanding Gifting economy.
This insight appeared to me while reading this: http://www.scottsantens.com/youtube-star-wars-future-of-work
Day: 3 November 2015
Awoke at 2 a m it’s now 3:46…
Awoke at 2 a.m., it’s now 3:46 a.m. And I just figured out what the hell was bothering me about my negative experience at the end of the Artscape CSOC event yesterday.
The same observation I have about Habitat for Humanity locally here in Toronto, is essentially what my gut was warning me about the Artscape model.
Now I can go back to sleep…
“…As one last piece of evidence about the value of stories, there is a grand irony behind the saying that I started this blog post with: “The plural of anecdote is not data.” When Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Dictionary of Quotations investigated the origins of the truism, he found an interesting anecdote at its source.”
“Political scientist Raymond Wolfinger first used a variation of the common phrase in a graduate seminar at Stanford. A student in the class dismissed a simple factual statement as “a mere anecdote,” and Wolfinger snapped back, “The plural of anecdote is data.” Somewhere along the line, Wolfinger’s words got twisted into their reverse, and it has been repeated in that form ever since.”
“But of course, statistically speaking, Wolfinger’s the one who got the quotation wrong.”
http://www.nathanstorring.com/2015/05/06/how-stories-clarify-complexity/
“the self-destruction of diversity” = Gentrification
http://www.nathanstorring.com/2014/10/29/jane-jacobs-on-gentrification/
“It’s a difficult situation: We have an affordable housing crisis in the city right now, and the priority isn’t on social justice; it’s about this aesthetic economy.”
Deborah Leslie, a geographer professor at U of T, has studied the city’s transformation as manufacturing gave way to industries in line with the “creative city” agenda. Artists, she fears, end up as a symbolic salve to nefarious process. “While Artscape is doing important work, I think it is often being used to paper over and gather support for broader processes of gentrification and real estate development in the city,”
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/11/23/artscape_youngplace_school_is_now_in_session.html