I write a lot about beginning again, in part because I am always stopping for some reason or another. I began blogging with the intention of setting out my theory of intellectual property. Or perhaps I should say I wanted to offer to the world at large a concept which was both intellectual and mine.
There are many quaint sayings about 'starting' - a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step etc. I believe that journey may begin with the first step but after that it helps to have a map... So my map takes the form of an outline of a series of connected conversations. My hope is to talk someone through the concept and share image of what I imagine intellectual property might be.
Looking back I realize that there were many 'first' steps. The ones I feel important enough to describe are ideas about methodology - and epistemology. My entry point into the discussion of intellectual property was dictated by theory which accorded a big place to an understanding of theory as a process of describing, analyzing and then imagining what next... with this basic structure of how I wanted to think, I began ... I describe this strategy (as theory) in one of the articles attached to this blog.
My strategy required that I work with concepts. Again a short description of what I mean by 'concept' is attached to this blog... and then there were the concepts which shaped intellectual property. The obvious starting point was filled with the concept of 'property'. Define property and then modify with intellectual and I would have my concept of intellectual property done. The problem was not just with property which seemed to defy definition, but with intellectual. The challenge seemed to me to be to define Intellectual without simply referring to the mind and body duality - intellectual as not physical or intellectual as not tangible. This, however, lead me to the concepts of work, labour, action, and play - the ideas of Arendt an Huizinga...
And this is where I will begin my next blog...
