Link for November 20th, 2009

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Progress through education

There are few spaces on campus more welcoming than a Triskelion meeting. Nestled at the end of a hall on the third floor of the Shapiro Campus Center, members gather every Thursday evening at 8 p.m. to discuss sexual identity, discrimination and challenges that the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning community continues to face. A few members sit on couches, others take up residence next to the bookshelves and someone is always engaged in conversation. It is a support group, an intellectual coffee discussion and a sociology class.

Students and faculty have also expressed interest with introducing more classes that focus on sexuality and gender studies to address topics that are still sensitive or shrouded with confusion. "Slurs are still thrown around a lot," says Luo. Transgender, polyamory, sadomasochism and asexuality are topics that still need to be introduced into the dialogue.

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November 20th, 2009 at 22:04

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"Artistic creation is not born ex nihilo from the brains of individuals as a private language; it has always been a social practice. Ideas are not original, they are built upon layers of knowledge accumulated throughout history. Out of these common layers, artists create works that have their unmistakable specificities and innovations. All creative works reassemble ideas, words and images from history and their contemporary context."

"Only after the invention of the creative genius, practices of collaboration, appropriation and transmission were actively forgotten."

"Copyright pits author against author in a war of competition for originality – its effects are not only economic, it also naturalizes a certain process of knowledge production, delegitimates the notion of a common culture, and cripples social relations. Artists are not encouraged to share their thoughts, expressions and works or to contribute to a common pool of creativity. Instead, they jealously guard their “property” from others, who they view as potential competitors, spies and thieves lying in wait to snatch and defile their original ideas. This is a vision of the art world created in capitalism’s own image, whose ultimate aim is to make it possible for corporations to appropriate the alienated products of its intellectual workers."

"The private ownership of ideas over the last two centuries hasn't managed to completely eradicate the memory of a common culture or the recognition that knowledge flourishes when ideas, words, sounds and images are free for everyone to use."

The above from: Copyright, Copyleft & the Creative Anti-Commons

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