Noun
commodity (plural commodities)
Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
1995, James G. Carrier, Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western
Capitalism Since 1700, p.122[[1]]
If a key part of shopping is the conversion of anonymous commodities
into possessions, shopping is a cultural as much as an economic
activity.
2001, Rachel Pain, Introducing Social Geographies, p. 26 [[2]]
In human geography "commodities" usually refers to goods and services
which are bought and sold. The simplest commodities are those
produced by the production system just before they are sold.
2005, William Leiss, Botterill, Jacki, Social Communication in
Advertising: Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace, p.307 [[3]]
Referring to the work of Bourdieu, Zukin (2004,38) notes that
shopping is much more than the purchase of commodities
Something useful or valuable.
And Slade said: "It really makes me sad that football club chairmen
and boards seem to have lost that most precious commodity - patience.
"Sam's sacking at Newcastle had, I suppose, been on the cards for a
while, but it is really ridiculous to fire a manager after such a
short time. Somerset County Gazette on Jan. 14th, 2008.
(economics) Raw materials, agricultural products and other primary
products as objects of large scale trading in specialized exchanges.
The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between
professional players in World's many commodities exchanges.
(marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit
margin, as distinguished from branded products.
Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the
calculators have become a mere commodity.
On 18 Nov 2008, at 14:23, marc garrett wrote:
Hi Patrick & Simon,
Is it an object before it turns into a consumer-based commodity, or
after?
marc
What makes an object art?
It is clear that these objects are destined to be commodities.
Can an art object be a commodity? Can commodities be art objects
and remain
commodities? Is Duchamps Fountain still a urinal? I seem to remember
somebody testing this hypothesis.
Regards
Simon
On 18/11/08 13:33, "patrick simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Are these art objects?!
patrick
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Pall Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I've got some work for sale. Here's the long and short of it.
I'm going to be exhibiting a piece of mine called Exist.pl
(some of
you may remember it as it was developed via discussions here on
the
list as well as other lists) at the MakeArt festival in France
in a
couple of weeks. The work will also be exhibited as part of the
Piksel
festival in Bergen, Norway. Here in Iceland we have what's
called The
Center for Icelandic Art. Their job is to provide financial
assistance
to artists taking their work abroad. They're the only source for
travel grants for short trips like this one. I applied, I got
rejected
(with no explanation of why), I have this nagging feeling that
they
don't "get" this type of art. So what I would like to do now,
is to
sell copies of this work to get some funds towards the trip (I had
already bought flight tickets before I got rejected). The work
consists of a piece of software running on a computer. It doesn't
produce any output but it's doing a lot of background work. So to
provide the viewer with some information on what's going on,
four A2
sized posters, displaying the source code at various stages of the
softwares development, will be displayed.
The software itself is free under the GPL license and lives at
http://code.google.com/p/existpl
But I have for sale a limited edition of twenty sets of these
posters.
I'll only sell them in sets. There are four posters in the set.
These
are signed and numbered, high quality color prints suitable for
framing. Ideally, they would be displayed in a row on a wall
with a
computer nearby to run the software when the owner chooses (but
this
entirely up to the purchaser of the work). You can see a small
version
of what they look like at the following URLs:
http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code1.pdf
<http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code1.pdf>
http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code2.pdf
<http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code2.pdf>
http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code3.pdf
<http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code3.pdf>
http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/code4.pdf
<http://pallit.lhi.is/%7Epalli/code4.pdf>
The price is $50 per set. If I manage to sell all twenty sets,
this
will provide enough to cover printing and mailing costs, with the
remainder being approximately what I applied for from The
Center for
Icelandic Art.
On top of being colorful and thought provoking, they create an
interesting visual pattern when lined up together.
Please contact me offlist if you're interested.
Pall Thayer
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http://www.this.is/pallit
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