canongatebooks says:

Hi, I thought Revish members might be interested in this project / campaign Canongate Books is running in conjunction with the publication of The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World.

We are hoping that loads of people will sign up to a gifting free-for-all on http://www.giftday.org.uk/. You can read more about why we're doing this over there, but here's a quick summary:

Are creativity and art products or works, or gifts? Is there always a fixed commercial value one can place on artistic inspiration and creativity? Lewis Hyde, in his seminal work — The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World — argues that we should “keep some parts of our social, cultural, and spiritual life out of the marketplace”. He believes that the rise of capitalism has brought about the decline of the creative spirit.

We want to restore the creative spirit to our capitalist-driven society, by refusing to attach a market value to everything we create. And so we have come up with Gift Day, a day where we make it a point to share our gifts with those around us.

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