tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post1091839332651141157..comments2024-03-22T00:20:38.510-07:00Comments on Adam Riggio writes: Scarcity’s Reality and Its Dangers, Research Time, 20/08/2013Adam Riggiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-38366698407584367662013-08-20T09:09:52.505-07:002013-08-20T09:09:52.505-07:00Good point re the distinction of art and intellect...Good point re the distinction of art and intellectual work, which as I read you is that we write for our colleagues and ourselves, not for a secondary audience.<br /><br />Great point re. "The Other" -- a much abused term that can't evoke much interest in me anymore, after an MA in postcolonial studies which really obsesses over the concept. I appreciate you recovering it in the psychological/ relational sense Sartre first developed (or at least developed in Dialectic). <br /><br />Two points:<br /><br />1. Re. scarcity and emotions. For what it's worth, your psychological turn led me to think in terms of jealousy vs. envy. Envy refers to something you don't have but do want. Jealousy refers to something you do have but don't want someone else to have. The poor envy the rich, but the rich are jealous of the poor gaining access to their wealth. Very different psychological orientations that can easily be conflated under a sense of competition over scarce resources.<br /><br />2. Re. scarcity and zero-sum logics. More broadly, the scarcity notion brings to mind Wallerstein's world system theory, which (I think quite inaccurately) assesses global capital flows in terms of a zero sum extraction from the poor to the rich. But the thing with many of the resources we prize these days is that they belong to expansive markets. So scarcity needs to be represented in multiple dimensions: scarce at present; scarcity of resources to expand market in the future; scarcity of attention / crowded market-place. Rich notion but very slippery.<br /><br />Looking forward to the surprises -- if you start writing about Deadwood, that would be a good surprise in my books.Tom Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942888225118081569noreply@blogger.com