[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Perverted Science

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

> 
> 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 <invink01@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:25:52 -0800 (PST)
To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
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 <human@electronetwork.org> 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
> > 
> 
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