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5 décembre 2022
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Mélissa Aberkane, « What is a "gift"? », Aesthetic Gathering, ID : 10.58079/oxb3
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Ah Christmas and its incredible flood of gifts under the tree! Yet, even if this holiday originally had little to do with material possessions, it has become emblematic of them. Today is an opportunity to revisit the notion of what a gift really is and what it represents in a profound way. A gift is generally understood to be a selfless giving of 'something' by one person to another. It can be an object (the famous children's toys), money (increasingly popular these days it seems), or a ca...