Tag Archives: Ouroboros

Top 5 Creative Infrastructure Posts of 2017

Posted on December 28, 2017 by

#1. For the second year in a row, a short piece defining arts incubators was the most popular post on Creative Infrastructure. I first posted “What is an ‘Arts Incubator’?” in 2013 early in my research on the topic, but … Continue reading →

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Revised Book Proposal

Posted on November 21, 2017 by

[Now that I’ve written over a third of the book I’ve been working on, I’ve revised the proposal for submission to publishers, and share it here.] Book Proposal: An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action     Description:     … Continue reading →

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Mass-produced Not-art

Posted on October 31, 2017 by

I continue to share bits and pieces of An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action as I develop several of the essays in the collection. This small bit is from Essay Four, on novelty and uniqueness, the introduction to which, since … Continue reading →

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One Paragraph at a Time

Posted on July 13, 2017 by

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 →

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Prologue

Posted on May 23, 2017 by

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 →

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Oh, the Irony

Posted on May 19, 2017 by

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 →

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Symbols Matter

Posted on February 12, 2017 by

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 →

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