Source: Forever Princess
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Post, comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-06-09, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cola-liw-834355743-12037-0%40liw.clinet.fi, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: The enclosure of the commons inaugurates a new ecological order: Enclosure did not just physically transfer the control over grasslands from the peasants to the lord. Enclosure marked a radical change in the attitudes of society towards the environment. Before, in any juridical system, most of the environment had been considered as commons from which most people could draw most of their sustenance without needing to take recourse to the market. After enclosure, the environment became primarily a resource at the service of "enterprises" which, by organizing wage-labor, transformed nature into the goods and services on which the satisfaction of basic needs by consumers depends. This transformation is in the blind spot of political economy.
William Plomer (1903–1973) South African-British writer
"Slightly Foxed", line 33.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires
Kyril Bonfiglioli (1928–1985) British art dealer
Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, After You With The Pistol (1979), Ch. 7.
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
"Penguins" (16 December 2007) http://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-sep-dec.html#16%20December%202007%20%28Penguins%29 <br class="br">2000s
“My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.”
Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Then the boy realised, the penguin wasn't lost, he was just lonely.”
Oliver Jeffers (1977) British writer and illustrator
“Enclosure, once accepted, redefines community.”
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: Enclosure, once accepted, redefines community. Enclosure undermines the local autonomy of community. Enclosure of the commons is thus as much in the interest of professionals and of state bureaucrats as it is in the interest of capitalists. Enclosure allows the bureaucrats to define local community as impotent — "ei-ei schau-schau!!!" — to provide for its own survival. People become economic individuals that depend for their survival on commodities that are produced for them. Fundamentally, most citizens' movements represent a rebellion against this environmentally induced redefinition of people as consumers.
