Tag: Gift Economy

• December 3, 2012

  The 3 basic conditions of a gift economy: generosity, onus, wholeheartedness

  Welcoming a number of new conversation partners into my philosophy practice has enabled me to rethink the basic conditions of my gift economy. I’ve been urged to find better ways of saying what a gift economy is (and, in conversation, to explore why it matters). All this has involved learning to speak more clearly, more…
• April 2, 2012

  On Dark Mountain Project, having skin in the game, and staking oneself

  In early February, I had a conversation with Jeppe Graugaard, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of East Anglia. The topic of the conversation, which also happens to be the subject of Jeppe’s dissertation, was the Dark Mountain Project, a poetically inspired fellowship that came into being when Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine wrote a…
• February 28, 2012

  Gift economy explained, justified, and defended

  Gift Economy Explained 1. Suppose A gives B a gift wholeheartedly. (By “wholeheartedly,” I mean without reserve or hesitation, without holding back or misgivings. Positively, I mean: “giving forth freely or receiving plentifully.”) 2. Then B receives the gift wholeheartedly. 3. It follows that B is goodly indebted to A. The debt is lighter, not…