Gary Alan FineThinkers

Chess is a social duet (two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play) surrounded by a soft-community, an open, welcoming space built on a shared commitment to the game.

Identity art is art whose truthfulness, whose valuation, is located not in the plastic realities of the objects themselves, but in the capacity of the makers' location in social space to wash over those objects and images and coat them in a taxonomically valued rhetoric of authenticity.

An Ideoculture is a system of knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and customs shared by members of an interacting group to which members can refer and that serve as the basis of further interaction.

Reputation is a socially recognized persona: An organizing principle by which the actions of a person (or an organization that is thought of as a person) can be linked together.

A Reputation is not the opinion that one individual forms of another... rather, it is a shared, established image. It is embedded in social relations and connected to forms of communication embedded within a community.