The Content Paradox

The Open Ethos in the Abyss of Access

Rolin Moe, Ed.D.Director of InnovationSeattle Pacific University@rmoejo

…the shoutOf Battel now began, and rushing soundOf onset ended soon each milder thought.High in the midst exalted as a GodTh’ Apostate in his Sun-Bright Chariot sateIdol of Majesty Divine, enclos’dWith Flaming Cherubim, and golden ShieldThen lighted from his gorgeous Throne…

- John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book 6, 96-102)

Illustration: Satan Calling Up His Legions by William Blake (Public Domain)

Paraphrasing - The performance of professional wrestling is built upon the knowledge of it as fantasy. That both the audience and the performers know and accept this pretense gives this communication a superiority over other forms which purport to be natural and serious.

- Roland Barthes, Mythologies

Paraphrasing – The group in power in society always insists that intellectual discussion should take place in the kind of language which it uses to see, interpret and dominate the world.

- Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks

There is an ‘escape hatch’ from the reusability paradox: using an open license.

The Content Paradox

The Buried Hatch Cover by Alan Levine CC BY 2.0

This slide is ironic.Henry of GermanyBy Laurentius de Voltolina (public domain)

Jean Racine (1639-1699)

A dreadful interval, and front to frontPresented stood in terrible arrayOf hideous length: Before the cloudy van,On the rough edge of battle ere it joined,Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,Came towering, armed in adamant and gold;Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stoodAmong the mightiest, bent on highest deeds,And thus his own undaunted heart explores.

- John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book 6, 104-112)