Surplus Money. A Note
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Money, Surplus Value | No Comments »We all encounter money directly. It takes the form of a flow away from us and towards us. We buy what we need and what gives us pleasure and we sell our skill and energy as workers (our services) and ...
Money Notes. Toward a Sociology of Money
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Money | No Comments »Money is an old human discovery continually revised. It has changed according to era and ideology. In our time it has been stripped of intrinsic value. It is no longer a commodity as well as a universal numerical sign. ...
Beyond the Money Motive
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in Money | No Comments »This for that. An exchange using the universal sign for desire as this. Money given and either a material thing (product) or service received. Theoretically any project can be pushed, the necessary workers and resources mobilized, by the tendering of ...
Money and the Non-Equivalence of Projects
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Money | No Comments »Some people can not chew gum and walk at the same time, but social groups and societies can though they might not. We are plural, there are several of us, and we have the division of labor option. ...
No I Won’t. The Refusal of a Proffered Value.
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Education, Resistance | No Comments »It may be that the student who persistently falls short in acquiring reading skills is not so much unable as he is unwilling. "Read" says the teacher. "I won't," says the student, "You can't make me." And he proves it ...
Onboard the Scan, Scribble and Tally Express
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »The supporters of social institutions always claim a greater gathering of our basic biological tendencies than they actually sweep-up. Marriage does not entirely corral sex and reproduction; the restaurant does not monopolize feeding and eating; hospitals and accredited medical doctors ...