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In what circumstances can a ‘something’ be of economic value without being commodified, objectified, exploited? Can we imagine an economy that does not commodify life?
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
to create a majestic and egalitarian society requires a more expansive vision of public goods than what can be imagined with economics alone.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Keely Adler added
Our current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more
Dark Matter Labs • Radicle Civics – Unconstituting Society 071022.pdf
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The experience economy caters to those able to physically move from A to B to witness an event, or to consume any given thing that adds to a list of site or material-specific experiences. However, when social capital is created by knowledge, rather than 'umami', a more democratic, interesting, and potentially productive value system can take over.
Sane • Cultural Signals: The Internal Experience Economy
Stuart Evans added
A social body is united not only by the things it makes use of, but by a multitude of shared traits, including geography, ethnicity, religion, taste, culture, history, and values. This is why, no matter their claim to universality, instantiations of public goods are always local . Locality is created and felt through shared space, time, or experien
... See moreSam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Keely Adler added
My hope is that in our current paradigm where capital is abundant and people pay millions of dollars for JPEGs of rocks, social value - as measured by the impact our actions have within a larger system - will displace monetary value as the primary pursuit of economic actors
Sam McCarthy • Governance as a Source of Value
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for art to serve social imagination, it has to be organised in ways that allow time for it to be absorbed and adapted, so that it becomes an act of co-creation rather than just an act of consumption or an enjoyable way to pass the evening.15 If it is only an object for the passing gaze, then it is, perhaps, bound to fail. Experiences that are share
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Lael Johnson and added
Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more
Nora Bateson • Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training.
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