| Lachlan Brown on Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:27:02 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Perverted Science |
> > excellent in-depth analysis of ACTA and this > report on unpatriotic academics (center column > feature): > > "Who are the brain police???" > http://la.indymedia.org/index.php3 > > Yes, this is an oldie. Scholarship predates the nation and required the university. The point of the university was that knowledge was universal, relatively free of church or state interference. The production and dissemination of knowledge was to be governed by peers, the academic profession, not intimidated by church or by monarch, and not fickle to the demands of the market. The university is a great idea the West got from Islam in the 12th and 13th century. Of course church, governments and commercial interests have always tried to change this. There is considerable power in the terms of the production of knowledge in the university or in media. Most of our rights were made to resist church, state and commercial interference. The Taleban is a good example of religious interference in the production of knowledge. Contemporary America a good example of corporate interference in the production of knowledge. The Soviet Union was a good example of state interference in the production of knowledge. A patriotic academic is generally a member of a military academy a place where patriotism is a valued part of the learning experience. Patriotic academics are not to be found in universities (though an academic can be patriotic in his spare time I suppose) because the outcome is ignorance, a perverted science, and really really crap arts and humanities. Believe me, the fascists have tried this many, many times before. Lachlan Brown -----Original Message----- From: invisble ink <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:25:52 -0800 (PST) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <nettime> Report on Unpatriotic Scholars > > excellent in-depth analysis of ACTA and this > report on unpatriotic academics (center column > feature): > > "Who are the brain police???" > http://la.indymedia.org/index.php3 > > > > > --- bc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [from the NYTimes, paper-version. not yet > > found online.] > > 11/24/2001, StarTribune newspaper, article > > online at: > > > > http://startribune.com/stories/484/850675.html > > > > /cut nettime-mod > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold