How do we ever have great ideas in isolation? Who ever thought anything
great without books, conversations, conferences....silence and secrecy
will only be impoverishing...
Jenny Robinson
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> I'm not sure on this. I suppose part of it depends on what
> individuals
> think 'being an academic' should entail. In addition, I do believe
> that a
> certain level of 'restrictive structure' to fight against is necessary
> for
> creativity (in every situation). Whether the restrictions in acadmia
> are
> becoming too tight, as we become wound more tightly into the free
> market....
>
>
> >Interesting to see all these responses about possession of ideas. I
> >believe there are people working on this, see the 'STS' list (Science
>
> >Studies). When I originally remarked on copyright, this was just what
>
> >I had in mind. What I really think is that increasing Fordization etc
>
> >of academe will in the long run prove very destructive especially now
>
> >in the time when one person can grasp so little of the enormous flood
>
> >of information and skills that can be put to use. Just when we most
> >need co-operation, we are forced into a war of all against all.
> >Of course individuals mostly have to toe the line to get the next
> >contract, which re-inforces it and so on (Is this 'emergence'?)
> >
> >> 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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