Users' Patronage: The Return of the Gift in the "Crowd Society"
In this work, I discuss the tension between gift and market economy throughout the history of creativity. For millennia, the production of creative artifacts ha…
History of Creativity
Rediscovering Cumulative Creativity from the Oral Formulaic Tradition to Digital Remix: Can I Get a Witness?
For most of human history the essential nature of creativity was understood to be cumulative and collective. This notion has been largely forgotten by modern po…