Re: [spectre] Alternative economies and the funding cutbacks + a few words on the situation in NL

2011-06-16 Diskussionsfäden Simon Biggs
Hi Eric I'd thought of crowd-sourced micro-funding as opportunistic and glorified begging (although begging can be seen to have a valid social status in certain contexts). However, your vision of not dead, not alive vampiric arts organisations sucking the blood of the crowd is much better. But wha

[spectre] Alternative economies and the funding cutbacks + a few words on the situation in NL

2011-06-16 Diskussionsfäden Eric Kluitenberg
Dear Spectrites, A fascinating discussion is emerging in (late) response to the funding cutbacks in the UK, NL, and now Slovenia. Without wanting to take anything away from what has been said so far, I would like to introduce a slightly different angle to the discussion. Because this is all s