Dear all,
I've got a few fairly original ideas of my own you know. I'm working on
them right now. But I'm not posting them here. They are MY ideas, MINE do
you hear me! I'm not sharing them in this email, copy righted or not. No,
you can't have them for months yet, by which time I will have signed all
rights and chance of profit over to some esteemed academic journal, thus
hopefully helping me meet the internally imposed RAE type criteria that
stand between me and continued employment. You want to talk
commodification of knowledge? It's been made very clear to me that these
ideas I'm having are all I have to sell/exchange in order to put food on
the table of my young family. And you know the funny thing - guess what
these ideas I am so possessive of are about. . . Participatory Rural
Appraisal. Yes you got it, a field/action method that is all about the
free sharing of ideas. . . Is there something bazaar about the
Fordification of academic life, or is it just me ?
Yours (cynically? Ironically?)
Mike
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