I just saw a guy pushing his dogs in a stroller

And that has nothing to do with this blog post - I am just still in awe. I mean two fat pugs in a baby stroller being pushed by their owner - what did they need some fresh air? and why can't they walk? Seriously. What a silly thing.

Anyway, I can't say I'm understanding a ton of the concepts in this book since I'm not familiar with all the references/don't have time to read slowly/have been skipping around a lot. The section that interested me most was the one about the ideology behind peer to peer, especially the last section "anarchy of access versus the stability of ownership." Vaidhyanathan talks about the way in which peer-to-peer technology "encourages both 'inconspicuous consumption' and 'conspicuous production.'" It's a big potential function in a society in which conspicuous consumption dominates. He says that the internet and file-sharing programs in particular allow people to "compose, copy, place, and distribute." I follow his logic that files are consumed inconspicuously through these networks, which is an interesting dynamic, but I'm not so sure about the whole conspicuous production part. I agree that it is a much more easily accessible possibility, but I don't necessarily think it's happening. Mostly we still use file sharing just to consume, even if it is conspicuously. But I just got bored with this topic because I found my new favorite blog, so I'm going to go post about that.