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Tag Archives: Ouroboros
One Paragraph at a Time
Progress on An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action is slow, but steady, one paragraph at a time. Here’s one from yesterday: In my work as a scholar of arts entrepreneurship, I walk a fine line between critiquing the neoliberal economic … Continue reading
Prologue
When I was in my late twenties, with my natural tendency toward risk aversion mediated by my first steady teaching gig and lacking the parental responsibilities I wouldn’t encounter until years later, I decided to get a private pilot’s license. … Continue reading
Posted in Institutional Infrastructure
Tagged capitalism, Cessna 152, Ouroboros, post-capitalism, stall training, The Enlightenment
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Oh, the Irony
I’ve immersed myself lately in reading about the decline or end of capitalism as background for the first essay in An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action. Last night, it was with some excitement that I had an opportunity to … Continue reading
Symbols Matter
Several years ago, I walked onto my campus and saw a swastika and two SS signs scrolled in chalk on a wall. They were high enough on the wall that whoever placed them there had to do so with some … Continue reading
Do What Loves
The best thing I read this past week was a post on Medium by Umair Haque that asserts that suggesting people “do what they love” [a.k.a. “follow their passion”] is not sufficient. Instead, he offers these three pieces of advice: … Continue reading
Book proposal
I’m working on a book proposal – let me know what you think. [revised 6/12/17] An Ouroboros: Art, Money and Entrepreneurial Action will be a collection of original essays for an interested lay audience that bridges the gap between my scholarly … Continue reading
The Ouroboros Last: Good Business Practices and the Arts
I was honored to be invited to deliver the keynote remarks at the UW-Madison Bolz Center’s Arts Business Research Symposium March 13-14. I previewed those remarks here and have posted the full text serially over the last several days. The talk was originally titled … Continue reading
