What Matters Who Writes?
What Matters Who Responds?
Andrea Lunsford, Rebecca Rickly, Michael Salvo,
and Susan West
In my view, we really must get involved in debates over
intellectual property, over what constitutes authorship and
knowledge, and begin to question our all-too-easy assumptions about
the relationship of a "self" or a unique "authentic voice" to what
is known--and to question how ownership of what is known currently
works to enrich some while utterly beggaring others. Only in our
confrontation of these questions, and in our playing them out in
terms of the metaphors of ownership that currently govern our
classrooms, lies our ability to conceive new systems of value that
will emphasize not knowledge products but the processes through
which knowledge is used; not the radical individual but the
self-in-relation; not rights but responsibilities; not ownership
but what Susan West
calls 'owning up.'
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