Cultural Commons

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Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
(Lewis Hyde)

Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture
(Aram Sinnreich)

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
(Steven Johnson)

Incidental Music:

Orson Whales (Moby Dick mashup)
The Artifact & Living
(Michael Andrews)
Pass the Mic
(Beastie Boys)
Get Off Your Ass and Jam
(Funkadelic)
100 Miles And Runnin
(N.W.A.)
Green Peppers
(Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass (Remix by Anthony Marinelli))
Whipped Cream
(Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass (Remix by Anthony Marinelli featuring Ozomatli))
Porcelain
(Moby)
Common as Air
09.25.2011
 (was 10.24.2010)

Is there such a thing as true, original creativity? Or "Are we just seeing further by standing on the shoulders of giants?", to paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll explore the question of where good ideas come from. Steven Johnson will tell us about the natural history of innovation. And Lewis Hyde offers a way to look beyond today's narrow debates over cultural ownership.

  1. Lewis Hyde on "Common as Air"

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    Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.

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  2. Aram Sinnreich on "Mashed Up"

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    Aram Sinnreich is the author of "Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about what he means by configurable culture.

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  3. Steven Johnson on "Where Good Ideas Come From"

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    Steven Johnson is the author of several books including "Mind Wide Open" and "The Invention of Air." His new one is "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation."

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  4. Ricardo Pitts-Wiley on "Moby Dick"

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    Ricardo Pitts-Wiley contributed to an essay by Henry Jenkins called "Multiculturalism, Appropriation, and the New Media Literacies: Remixing Moby Dick."

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