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IMMORTALITY
by William S. Burroughs

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/immortality.html

The vampire converts quality-live blood, vitality, youth, talent-into quantity-food and time for himself. He perpetrates the most basic betrayal of the spirit, reducing all human dreams to his shit. And that's the wrongest wrong a man can be.

- remarkable parallels with Pelevin's Empire V ( vampirism and etc.). all of it goes back to Nietzsche.

- geog 110. food production: from family to global market

Limits of self-organization, by Paul Duguid.

Abstract:
People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws” of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement.