Lewis Hyde and the enclosure of silence
Lewis Hyde , poet, critic and intellectual historian, has been hard at work on a book about “the commons”, and specifically the notion that ideas should be part of a cultural commons, not treated as private property, as they often are today. The idea of commons is an ancient one, from medieval Europe, where lands, streams, and forests were treated as common property by villagers We’re challenged to offer a definition of property, and most of our definitions center on our ability to make use of