No Knowledge Socialism. The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence

Contents
Contributors
1 Introduction
	Introduction
	Knowledge Socialism—History and Genealogy
		Knowledge Cultures
		Radical Openness
		Knowledge Socialism
	Knowledge Socialism Today
		Peer Production and Collective Intelligence
		The Challenge of Political Economy
		Education for Knowledge Socialism
	Some Preliminary Implications
	References
Part IPeer Production and Collective Intelligence
2 Towards a Theory of Knowledge Socialism: Cognitive Capitalism and the Fourth Knowledge Revolution
	Introduction: Re-visiting the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy
	The Discourse of Cognitive Capitalism
	Deep Learning and the Final Stage of Automation
	Algorithmic Capitalism in the Epoch of Digital Reason
	References
3 Toward an Epistemological Mutation in the Humanities and Social Sciences
	The Common Places of Emancipation
	An Epistemological–Political Project
	IEML: A Semantic Coordinate System
	Toward an Explanation of the Communication and Reference Games
	The Reference Act
	Reference Levels and the Question of Truth
	Observing the Emergence of Authority and Belief
	Conclusion: The Mission of the Digital Humanities
	References
4 Perversities or Problems in the Rise of Peer Production with Knowledge Socialism: Collegiality, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence
	Introduction and Overview
	The Contours of Knowledge Contradictions
	Plutonomy: The Highest Stage of Knowledge Capitalism
	Disinformation War and Knowledge Capitalism
	For Knowledge Socialism: The Gedankenexperiment
	Conclusion
	References
5 Postdigital Knowledge Socialism
	Introduction
	Knowledge Socialism in Theory
	The Curious Entanglement Between High Theory, Low Theory, and Practice
	Knowledge Socialism in Educational Practice
	Conclusion
	References
6 A Communist Theory of Writing: Virno, Lyotard, and a Rewriting of the General Intellect
	Introduction
	Rewriting for Knowledge or Thought
	Rewriting the General Intellect
	Speaking the General Intellect
	A General Line for the General Intellect
	Rewriting the Postdigital Speech of the General Intellect
	References
Part IIThe Challenge of Political Economy
7 Knowledge Socialism Purged of Marx: The Return of Organized Capitalism
	Marxism as a Casualty in the Fight Against Neoliberalism: The Path from Philip Mirowski’s Friendly Fire
	Socialism Without Marx: Reoccupying the Saint-Simon-Proudhon Spectrum of ‘Utopian Socialism’
	Knowledge Socialism as Philosophy of Science: Revisiting the Popperians
	References
8 The Democratic Socialisation of Knowledge: Integral to an Alternative to the Neoliberal Model of Development
	Introduction: From the Tragedy of the Commons to the Critique of Neoliberal-Led Global Capitalism
	Struggling Against the Commodification of Knowledge: Beyond the Academy
	Beyond Facebook: Challenges for Constructing a Virtual Global Civil Society
	The Neoliberal Model of Development and the Present Conjuncture
		Model of Development
		Neoliberal Model of Development and the Present Political Conjuncture
		The Decline of Democracy Under the Neoliberal Model of Development
		Addressing Bottom Up Top Down Dilemmas
		Towards an Alternative Model of Development
		Political Considerations
		From Uneven Development to the Collaborative Articulation of Diverse Ways of Life
	Towards a Democratic Socialist Model of Development
		A Flexible National Template and Direct Regulation
		A ‘World Knowledge Bank’ and ‘Glocalisation’
	Conclusion
	References
9 The Rehabilitation of the Concept of Public Good: Reappraising the Attacks from Liberalism and Neoliberalism from a Poststructuralist Perspective
	Arguing for the Public Good
	Attacks Against the Idea of Good
	The Complexity Turn: Quantumizing the Social Sciences
	Thomas Hill Green and the Democratic Justification for Public Good
	Deontology and Teleology
	The Good of Continuance
	The Good and the Right
	Education as a Public Good
	References
10 Going Public: Higher Education and the Democratization of Knowledge
	The Public Is Not Invited (and Never Has Been)
	Public Knowledge: A Matter of Gaining Exposure
	Higher Education: Modal Power to the People
	Epistemic Radicalization: A Bonfire of the Vanities?
	Generating ‘Publicity’
	References
Part IIIEducation for Knowledge Socialism
11 The University: From Knowledge Socialism to Knowledge Cooperatives
	The Very Idea of Knowledge Socialism
	The Matter of Judgement
	The University in an Ecological Perspective
	Who Judges the Judges?
	The University and the Public Sphere, Not Least in a Digital Age
	The University and Reasonableness
	A Strange Juxtaposition
	Conclusions
		A Proposal
	References
12 The Prospects for Knowledge Socialism in One Country?
	Introduction
	What Is ‘Knowledge Socialism’?
	High Hopes
	The Educational Left and the Crisis Last Time
	Mapping the Educational Left in Britain
		The Mainstream Educational Left
		The Critical Educational Left
		The Communitarian Educational Left
		The Left Modernisers
		The Social Realist Left
	The Way Ahead
	References
13 Locating and Diversifying Modernity: Deconstructing Knowledges to Counter Development for a Few
	Introduction
	Ecopedagogy and d/Development: A Brief Introduction
		Knowledges, Economics and Neoliberalism
	Globalizations and d/Development
		Plurality: Futures, Knowledges, Modernities and Globalizations
		Ecopedagogies: Disrupters of Linear Development
		Liquidity and Transmodernity
		Citizenships and Positionality: Solidarity and Othering
		Citizenship Grounded on Consumption
		Non-citizen De-distancing: Authentic Dialogue
	Socio-historiography: Disrupting Neo/Coloniality
		Disrupting Coloniality and Fatalism: Counterstories and Disciplines of Emergences
		De-orientalizing Development
		Disrupting ‘Common Sense’ Economics of Neoliberalism
	Concluding Analysis: Post-truthism and Bullshit
	References
14 Knowledge Exchange and Knowing: The Self, Art Practice and the Digital
	Introduction
	Digital and Higher Education
	Knowing
	Defamiliarisation
	Hauntology
	Conclusion
	References
Part IVConclusion
15 The Highway Robber’s Road to Knowledge Socialism: A Collective Work on Collective Work
	Introduction
	Knowledge Socialism, Alienation and a New Thought Collective (David W. Kupferman)
	Criminal Alternatives for (Knowledge) Socialism
	Knowledge Socialism and Early Childhood Nexus
	Openness: A Burdened Virtue of Socialist Knowledge Production
	A Collective Work on Collective Work
	The Merging Idea of Knowledge Socialism: Reflective Discourse Between the East and the West
	Conclusion
	Knowledge Socialism, Collective Writing and Academic Labour: A Response (Michael A. Peters)
		Collective Writing and the Juridical Construction of the ‘Author’
		Political Economy of Academic Labour in the Age of Digital Reason
	References