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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by astazangasta on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:45AM (#19328928)
The story in the opening is probably apocryphal, and there is evidence Fountain is not the work of Duchamp, but of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven : >On 11 April 1917 Duchamp wrote to his sister Suzanne and said that, "One of my female friends who had adopted the pseudonym Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture; since there was nothing indecent about it, there was no reason to reject it."

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/feature...

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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by esnible3 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:57AM (#19329059)
Exactly this. Barabási says "networks drive success." The Baroness was a leaf node. She connected mostly through Duchamp. His network allowed him to succeed. Her packets got dropped by the Duchamp node.
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