2021-12-27

• [[Knowledge commoner]] > [[Knowledge worker]]

• Last [[node club]] of 2021! I am going to look at [[gift economy]]. (I was originally going to look at [[totalitarianism]] as I’m reading [[V for Vendetta]] but this feels a bit more festive). I am interested how gift economies relate to / differ from [[mutual aid]] and [[commoning]].

• Reading [[V for Vendetta]]

• [[Gift economy]]

Giving lives in a domain ranging from deep symbolism to basic housekeeping. It is the currency of the small-scale resilient community. It is sometimes magic, in that some kinds of gift can be given over and over again without loss—love, for example, and (in a different sense, since time cannot really be replenished) the gift of reciprocal service to each other. The “reciprocal” part happens, but not by arrangement. This is the opposite of transparency: you cast your gift upon the waters, and what comes back is trust.

– [[Lean Logic]], Gifts

• [[How I take notes]]

• [[Distributed digital gardens]]

• [[Joseph Beuys]]

• Listening: [[PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE: the future of public libraries]]

  • [[public libraries]]