Poof Crackula #1 Bitce $$$

[imomus]

1. PS1 Cafe, Queens.

2. PS1 courtyard, installing unidentified piece.

3. Momus' gallery get-up (bubblewrap later removed, too hot).

4. Favourite piece from Greater New York show, PS1: Seven Veils for Julia Pastrana—Ugliest Woman in the World, Born Mexico 1834, Died Moscow 1860 by Christopher Myers.

5. Mai Ueda and Kenneth Goldsmith battle with Star Wars lightsabers at his loft.

6. Mai looking glamourous at the gallery.

7. Momus tries on his new Beacon's Closet top at Harlem crash pad.

8. Poof Crackula #1 Bitce $$$.

9. Corner of Grand and Lafayette.

Comments

[imomus.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting article, but its hyper-capitalist assumptions limit it. Most humans, like the monkeys in this experiment, quite sensibly prefer use value to exchange value. They are happy to settle for what they can use, rather than accumulate things they can't use in order to trade them or make a profit. Why bother becoming an entrepreneur when you're just happy to keep hunger at bay?

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

The hyper-capitalists seem to take particular delight in this putative incident of exchange:

Something else happened during that chaotic scene, something that convinced Chen of the monkeys' true grasp of money. Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its fungibility, the fact that it can be used to buy not just food but anything. During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind. (Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape. (from the NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05FREAK.html?pagewanted=all) reporting the work)

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

Re: entrepreneurship, you've most likely heard this hyper-Darwinian spiel (http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4032638), which is, at least, more plausible than the monkey tale.