https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-post-capitalist-ecosystem-value-creation/2017/01/18 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 21 May 2017 12:51:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-post-capitalist-ecosystem-value-creation/2017/01/18/comment-page-1#comment-1578227 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:10:38 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=62842#comment-1578227 Wonderful! There is in all this the distinction that Lewis Mumford made (in ‘The Story of Utopias’, 1922) between “as the bee goes to the flower for pollen, and not as the beekeeper goes to the hive for honey.” For Mumford, the “possessive borrowing” of the beekeeper (as opposed to the “creative borrowing” of the bee) is what has “set novelty above intrinsic worth.” In Worcester, the task of public art is to reveal intrinsic worth rather than chase novelty.

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