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The Privatisation of Everything Under the Sun: audio.

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Friday January 20, 2006 03:14author by saoririseoirauthor address Ireland Report this post to the editors

recording of Kenbrew McLoed at TCD, Fri Jan 13th.

47mins mp3 64kbps
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/rjs.r.2006.1.13.kenbrewmcloed.mp3

The public domain is shrinking: it is being diminished in almost every sphere; education and literature, medicine, life (including human genetic material), music and science. Needless to say, this privatisation is beeing carried out at the expense of our freedom to avail of our common heritage; for no-one is trully original. Isaac Newton said "If I see further than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants".

Likely as not, this statement of Newton's freely given, will be forbidden from use without royalty of some description in the near future.

Our own state broadcaster is at it; selling things back to us that are already ours, but that's for another day.

Listen to Kenbrew's less parochial perspective; though cords will be struck.

hyperlink again is:
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/rjs.r.2006.1.13.kenbrewmcloed.mp3

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=73737
author by barrapublication date Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Kenbrew is one of the most articulate people I have heard to date, explaining the social cost of mass privatization, be it in scientific research or in music. He has a very interesting mind.

author by Robbie Sinnottpublication date Sat Jan 21, 2006 19:27author address Irelandauthor phone Report this post to the editors

17 mins 25s, mp3 64kbps.

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/rjs.mw.iv.2006.1.13.kenbrewmcloed.mp3

The discussion took place in a pub on Dame Street on Friday January 13th, shortly after Kenbrew had conducted a public seminar on The Privatisation of Everything Under the Sun for the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr. McLoed had to leave the field of Sociology for Communications in the US, because Sociology Departments there are not open to radical discourse. Even European Sociologists like Stuart Hall are off the disciplinary menua of US Sociology. In Contrast, Communications Studies in the US are inter-disciplinary and very open to debate of integrity

author by Seanpublication date Sun Jan 22, 2006 16:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thanks saoririseoir and Robbie for putting this up. To read more about Kembrew, you can visit his website at www.kembrew.com. There is a section, under books, where you can download his latest book, Freedom of Expression, for free.

There will also be an interview with Kembrew published in the February issue of Foggy Notions.

 
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