tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post4432812903503523105..comments2024-03-28T11:36:22.391-04:00Comments on Half an Hour: Whence the Virtue of OpenStephen Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-8474603445839080442021-07-02T06:27:54.970-04:002021-07-02T06:27:54.970-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.allpcprohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15852536975767933938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-4527327926006971112019-06-20T15:02:57.493-04:002019-06-20T15:02:57.493-04:00Thanks Stephen, these are very interesting argumen...Thanks Stephen, these are very interesting arguments. In case it is not clear my critique is that of a long-term open access advocate. For example, my blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com (I hope that readers are able to access it as corporate algorithms appear to be blocking some potential readers in the past year or so) is OA and has been focused primarily on OA and transition to OA since 2004; until a few years ago the license was CC-BY-NC-SA but currently I try to avoid CC licenses, as I view these as problematic and less important to scholarship than broad-based fair dealing. For example, we need to be able to re-use material that copyright owners do not wish us to share; in my research, this includes material on the web pages of OA publishers, typically licensed All Rights Reserved even if the OA works use CC-BY.<br /><br />Your point about open in communication is interesting. A type of dialectics that would be useful in this analysis, and that I did not include in the CCA presentation (to keep this to a reasonable length) is Hegelian dialectics. That is, the concept of open immediately invokes the opposite, closure, and tends towards change as we move from one opposite to another. In Hegelian terms, this is being, nonbeing, and becoming. Language is effective for communication because it is open (almost all humans can speak, hear, and comprehend language), but also because it is to some degree closed (words have specific meanings and the relationship between concepts is expressed through specific grammatical constructs). Becoming in this instance is illustrated by the evolution on language. <br /><br />In future given time I would love to explore further, for example some people are being to look at the relationship of Western dialectics, taoism, and/or Indian philosophy; I wonder if anyone has thought to compare with traditional indigeneous knowledges. If anyone has any references, tips, or thought on this (and particularly how to apply to the "open" movements), sharing would be appreciated. Heather Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13726928948544472886noreply@blogger.com