Hi Ken and all,
Many thanks for your detailed reply.
I will be brief, in keeping with list etiquette.
My use of the term "terra nullius” is deliberately provocative: an exaggerated trope for rhetorical purposes. But, I maintain that that there is a link in the modes of thinking about territorial colonisation ignoring the rights of indigenous populations and the academic practice of seeking out new, seemingly unoccupied, fields of knowledge.
The secretive practices of guilds and crafts is not relevant. Of the craft knowledge I speak particularly—typography—there are many texts written by typographers and publishers in the 20th century that provide ample evidence of systematic knowledge in the field.
At the same moment as Jonnasen is making his claim, he is, like the rest of us academics, following the requirements of his publisher to use a set of well developed systematic craft based practices in praparing his manuscript for publication An ironic absurdity.
Your claim that:
> Even though craftsmen and artisans did conduct research of different kinds, the information was never rendered systematic.
Is simply not true.
What is at stake here is about the valuing of one type of knowledge over another: contemporary amateur science over mature craft knowledge, and the right to take over a field of knowledge, dismissing the rights and status of existing professional craft practitioners.
In the context of doing a phd this comes down to a very practical matter: using the CRAFT of a literature review of the “field”. Even the metaphor of the “field” reminds us about territory, and a claim to having reviewed the field to find out if anyone has done systematic work in the peer reviewed literature before me so that I can claim to be making an original contribution to knowledge. How disrespectful to take such a procrustean view of knowledge!
Professionals in many cultures are routinely amputated by ’new knowledge' from the academy. (Another of my exaggerated tropes!) Consider so called 4th order design
Lessons from history and being doomed comes to mind. But, I have said enough for students on this list to join the dots. I will try to resist my temptation to say more.
David
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