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Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.

The Overstory

Richard Powers

What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand the need for care and various networks that would have to go into maintaining something over thousands of years. What infrastructures do you need in place, what kinds of labor, what kinds of storytelling would you need in order to pass on information? They focus on the technology, on the object itself, and nothing around it, which is a common problem that people within these particular subcultures seem to have.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

Simply put, it is a conflation of "market" as used in a verbal sense and as a noun: the potlach society is an example of a primitive market, whereas modern society performs a marketing function, but rarely at markets. Again, I'll return to the distinction at a later point, when introducing the term "antimarket" into the discussion, and simply note here that this kind of conflation is the very kind of discursive error which seems to validate the very position Bourdieu denies - Foucault's restriction of his concept of the field of possibilities to the domain of discourse.

Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory

Dan O'Hara

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