{"id":2807,"date":"2005-04-25T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/04\/25\/2807.html"},"modified":"2005-04-25T00:27:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T07:27:11","slug":"art-money-property-anarchism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/04\/25\/art-money-property-anarchism\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, money, property, anarchism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I'm astonished to discover that I've never written here about J. S. G. Boggs<\/a>, an artist whose best-known work involves drawing detailed images of currency. His site includes a page that describes who he is and the origin of his money art<\/a>, an appeals-court transcript<\/a> from some years back, and a 1992 essay about his work by Preston K. Covey titled \"Ethics, Art, & Money in the Work of J.S.G. Boggs<\/a>.\" I first encountered Boggs in what I think was a reprint of a New Yorker<\/cite> article in 1996; the article was probably by Lawrence Weschler, who expanded it into a 1999 book, Boggs: A Comedy of Values<\/a><\/cite>, which I haven't read but would someday like to.<\/p>\n

Something else I'm surprised I never linked to (probably because I encountered it before I started this journal): P. J. Proudhon's What Is Property?<\/a>, which starts out with the claim that \"Property is robbery\" (more often translated \"Property is theft\"). Note: I don't necessarily endorse the Proudhon piece; I just think it's interesting (what I've read of it so far, anyway).<\/p>\n

While I'm pointing to interesting works about property that I haven't read in their entirety, here's \"Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright<\/a>,\" a 1999 article by Eben Moglen. I'm amused to see the copyright notice at the bottom of the page—though it turns out to be a copyright on the compilation that contains the article rather than the article itself.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I may as well point to the Anarchism FAQ<\/a>, with the caveat that it's written from a leftist-anarchist point of view which doesn't really acknowledge anarcho-capitalism as real anarchism.<\/p>\n

Note my clever use in this entry of the Harper's Index Effect, wherein juxtaposition is used to make it look like a set of items are somehow related, even if the relationship among them isn't very clear.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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