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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; […]

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Tags: collaboration and technology

A Nomad’s Guide to Learning and Social Software

November 1st, 2005 · 2 Comments

UPDATE: For those who rather read the article online, I have pasted it below.
Back from Barcelona, where we had a wonderful time! Currently swamped with work and life, so the summary of the congress is going to have to wait a bit. However, I wanted to share the link to an article I just wrote […]

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Tags: online learning