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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>just came across this, in the context of art, a
kind of inverse situation...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>an essay by Shumon Basar entitled The Professional
Amateur</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in the book Did Someone Say
Participate?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.didsomeonesayparticipate.com/contents.html">http://www.didsomeonesayparticipate.com/contents.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll have to check out Tous Sublimes, referred to
by Michel in the Agency thread: can be purchased here, in French
only</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.decitre.fr/livres/fiche.aspx?code-produit=9782082102858">http://www.decitre.fr/livres/fiche.aspx?code-produit=9782082102858</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the topic is changing labour markets towards more
"casual" work patterns</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a game based on this
phenomenon: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.siswo.uva.nl/tlm/root_files/Transitions%20%20A%20General%20Presentation%20of%20key%20concept-3.pdf">http://www.siswo.uva.nl/tlm/root_files/Transitions%20%20A%20General%20Presentation%20of%20key%20concept-3.pdf</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>A book that has been recommended to me, but hard to get in libraries, is
Tous Sublimes, which reviews the many initiatives across Europe to achieve
precisely that, and to revive the condition for a renaissance of the Sublimes,
the 19th cy. labour aristocrats that worked just a few months a year. This is
pretty much the structural condition of cognitive workers, who are no longer
selling their labour to capital, but are rather as artisans in control of
their own means of production. </DIV>
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