An artist would say: an experience which can never be an established product category, the value is not dollar value (and hence transferable and instrumental) but rather, what is from the point of view of the market, no value (a free beer) -- a non-generalizable contract between the system and its environment that evades regulation - economic or ideologic - but not mechanical interpretation.
Art is an inside trade, an insiders game, activated by rare sigils and names, private collections emboldened by all the horses you've picked to win but will never finish first. Like technology at the bleeding edge, having a boyfriend or a kid-- a remote job or a hard technical problem-- the art game is complicated. If you know it when you see it, it's pornography. If you give until it feels good, it's philanthropy.
Chosen Beer Drinking Strategies
Drink Beer Slowly if you're out
Drink Beer Similarly if you're in
Unused Strategies
Drink Beer in Proportion to amount of porn you watch.
We reflect on the various ways both urbit and the work of art separate method from quantity such that what will be done can be considered independently from the doing. We focus on the skin trade as a kind of condition that is open to an increasing number of alternatives that will be managed by other than the immediate legislation. Perhaps autonomy has nothing to do with the political but the code that represents a natural resource before it is applied.