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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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 25 November 1998 17:17 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Copyright of email messages > > > > > ---------- > > From: [log in to unmask][SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 5:17:18 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: Copyright of email messages > > Auto forwarded by a Rule > > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%