Daily Archives: February 10, 2009

When Obsessions Collide

gak. The Guild, the Name of the Wind, plus this photo of Rothfuss, wearing his Joss Wheedon t-shirt. So, don’t stop, go: read the Name of the Wind, watch the Guild, breathe in the Wheedon-y goodness. And if you know not that of which I speak, I pity thee and thy self-styled academic, status-masturbatory, Frankfurt-school …

February 10, 2009 – 9:29 pm | By Peter | Posted in Ramble | Comments Off

Valleys of value

Mike at the Online Photographer, makes an elegant point (with graph!) about the relationship between time and economic value. In looking at photographic archives and collectibles, he notes that there is a transformation from use-value in the short term, to no use-value/no-exchange value in the middle term, to no use-value/high exchange-value in the long term. …

February 10, 2009 – 12:55 pm | By Peter | Posted in Culture | Comments Off