Lewis Hyde: "Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership"
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2012
- Lewis Hyde of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society discusses his book "Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership," at Cambridge Forum. He discusses the "cultural commons" and intellectual property. More lectures at forum-network.org
Lewis Hyde's work has been very helpful to me as an artist. I want to mention that a solution to the problem of a base from which artists can produce without starving is something now widely discussed in many countries: Basic Income. A decent Universal Unconditional Basic Income would also open all manner of human activities to the possibility of being practiced as Arts, such as child rearing, healing, and as Erich Fromm wrote, loving.
YES YES YES
Interviewer dude whose name i'm not right now remembering, when discussing Watson and Crick, can we NOT leave out Rosalind Franklin? I mean, it's a perfect example of who has power over the commons and who gets the credit, the copyright etc. In this case, a woman with less social capital is left out of getting due credit.
At 16:50 Mr. Hyde claims that "the founders were wary of power in general." Only an American could make such a claim about a rich group of slave owners!
And wasn’t Ben Franklyn a member of an elitist society that gave him his “protection” for his ideas...he wouldn’t need a patent!
Either this speaker is not knowledgeable of his nation’s true history or he is, as he has used the label, an history “trickster”. One who takes a blow at the “joints” of history and weakens them to the point of double-jointedness. (?)
“Agonistic pluralism”....where everyone has a say? But this idea is founded upon a distorted etymological use of the word agonist. Looking up on the internet shows that the word agonist is used with antagonist,
“antagonist (n.)
"one who contends with another," 1590s, from French antagoniste (16c.) or directly from Late Latin antagonista, from Greek antagonistes "competitor, opponent, rival," agent noun from antagonizesthai "to struggle against, oppose, be a rival," from anti "against" (see anti-) + agonizesthai "to contend for a prize," from agon "a struggle, a contest" (see agony). Originally in battle or sport, extended 1620s to any sphere of human activity.” I.e the antagonist is against the contender. There is the and to debate it there is antithesis. To that a debate is all thesis is a trick of words(?)