Entries from September 2006
The thing about the internet of things
September 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: collaboration and technology
Spectacular Feast: Social Media and Ultimate Consumerism
September 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
I was reading Anti-Oedipus, minding my own business, when I came across this marvelous anthropological observation describing what the chief of a tribe does with surplus food:
“The chief converts this perishable wealth into imperishable prestige through the medium of spectacular feasting. The ultimate consumers are in this way the original producers.” (Leach, 1966, p. 89; [...]