Posted in Thinking Things Through, tagged fear, lewis hyde on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was re-reading Daniel Smith’s article about Lewis Hyde in the NYT Magazine recently, and got to thinking about this notion of a creative or cultural commons. In the article, Smith writes about distinguishing between
“rivalrous” resources, like drinking water, in which one person’s use by definition competes with another’s, and “nonrivalrous” resources, like the English [...]
Posted in Thinking Things Through, tagged dave hickey, lewis hyde on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read with interest the article “What is Art For?” by Daniel Smith in the NYT magazine this past weekend. It is about the not-very-well-known author Lewis Hyde (I had never heard of him) who nonetheless is kind of famous among creative types for his 1983 book “The Gift”, which Smith writes, “tries to reconcile [...]
