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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Lewis Hyde In the late 1990s, [Lewis] Hyde began extending his lifelong project of examining “the public life of the imagination” into what had become newly topical territory: the “cultural commons.” The advent of Internet file-sharing services like Napster and Gnutella sparked urgent debates over how to strike a balance between public and private claims to [...]
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KR Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
A terrific write-up on Lewis Hyde appeared last Friday in the NY Times Magazine–absolutely worth a visit. On Thursday, he spoke with the KR student associates (many with an inclination toward a future in publishing) about some of his current research on intellectual property and the creative commons–bending the general topic at the end [...]
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The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
In yesterday's Times Magazine profile of Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift, the interviewer Daniel B. Smith notes:Hyde’s fans ... routinely use words like “transformative” and “life-altering” to describe his books, which they’ve been known to pass hand to hand...
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minor aggregations (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Excellent Times Magazine profile on the work of writer and thinker Lewis Hyde, and his decades long examination of the meaning of art in modern society, the insanity of copyright laws, and the re-establishment of intellectual commons. His book "The Gift" mentioned in the article currently has 47 holds on it at the New York Public Library. Gerk. Stanley Fish lays out in the clearest possible...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process.
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard (Free subscription) | yesterday
I read the recent New York Times magazine profile of Lewis Hyde with some interest. As it happened, I wrote a review of Hyde’s 1983 book The Gift just about 25 years ago as one of my early assignments at the Boston Phoenix. My editor at the time, Kit Rachlis, thought I might find Hyde’s [...]
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Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Thanks to a timely permalinking intervention , I caught a NYTmag story from the 16th that I would have missed, about Lewis Hyde and crafting a new notion of copyright . Half-profile, half-summary, it wanders a lot over its five pages, but has great paragraphs like this one: Thinker-politicians like Jefferson, Adams and Madison were just as familiar as we are with the metaphor that likens...
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Velveteen Rabbi (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Last week's Sunday Times magazine featured a profile of Lewis Hyde written by Daniel B. Smith, called What is Art For? Lewis Hyde is a colleague of Ethan's at the Berkman Center. He's a poet (I especially like his This...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
LEWIS HYDE ON WALDEN POND The Cultural Commons In the late 1990s, Lewis Hyde began extending his lifelong project of examining the public life of the imagination into what had become newly topical territory: the cultural commons. The advent of Internet file-sharing services like Napster and Gnutella sparked urgent debates over how to strike a balance between public and private claims...
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The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Check out Daniel B. Smith’s article on Lewis Hyde in the New York Times Magazine: “What is Art For? Hyde is the author of “The Gift”, an influential book exploring the idea of gift economies. It’s a book that I have meant to read. Hyde seems to be a practical man [...]
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CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Check out Daniel B. Smith’s article on Lewis Hyde in the New York Times Magazine: “What is Art For? Hyde is the author of “The Gift”, an influential book exploring the idea of gift economies. It’s a book that I have meant to read. Hyde seems to be a practical man [...]
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Simplistic Art (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
As I continue to understand appropriation in the arts, I ran into a great write-up on poet Lewis Hyde and his philosophy on copyrights and copylefts. It is a great read for those exploring the realms of creative commons and believe in the virtues of sharing their creative output… Despite Ben Franklin’s notorious talents of self-promotion, he was explicit that his inventions were not and...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Check out Daniel B. Smith's article on Lewis Hyde in the New York Times Magazine: "What is Art For? Hyde is the author of "The Gift", an influential book exploring the idea of gift economies. It's a book that I have meant to read. Hyde seems to be a practical man as well as a man of ideas. He wrote an essay "Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking" because...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Check out Daniel B. Smith's article on Lewis Hyde in the New York Times Magazine: "What is Art For? Hyde is the author of "The Gift", an influential book exploring the idea of gift economies. It's a book that I have meant to read. Hyde seems to be a practical man as well as a man of ideas. He wrote an essay "Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking" because...
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Throughlines (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
There’s a fascinating article in this weeks Sunday N.Y. Times magazine about poet and essayist Lewis Hyde, whom I had never heard of, despite the fact that he’s regarded as one of the most “illuminating, transformative, and completely original” writers of our age. The article was enough to get me out to the bookstore last night to find a copy of Hyde’s extended essay on Creativity...
