Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism
The ascent of neoliberalism and informational capitalism has been largely successful in privatizing and re-regulating state-subject-market relations in ways that treat them “as if” they are a market situation. Here, we observe both the increasing commodification of digital forms of knowledge, as we...
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The ascent of neoliberalism and informational capitalism has been largely successful in privatizing and re-regulating state-subject-market relations in ways that treat them “as if” they are a market situation. Here, we observe both the increasing commodification of digital forms of knowledge, as well as the commodification of the access to this knowledge. As predominantly non-commercial spaces, libraries serve the vital function of deflecting these developments. In this article, I argue for going one step further and imagining libraries as institutionalized and pedagogical spaces that can negotiate and transgress their institutional limits vis-à-vis public and private resources, discourses, policies, and technologies for the purpose of furthering the commons. In so doing, libraries serve as alter-neoliberal pedagogies, which democratize the construction and deconstruction of knowledge, as well as the access to them. Here, alternative literacies, ways of learning, and ways of being can be prefigured in practice. In imagining these conceptual potentialities of academic and public libraries, this article sets forth an initial agenda toward the commoning library.
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| spelling | doaj-art-56ef8e26abf040038462f14c3d15b3b42025-08-20T02:18:39ZengDIGSUMJournal of Digital Social Research2003-19982021-02-013110.33621/jdsr.v3i1.58Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational CapitalismDimitris Soudias0London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom The ascent of neoliberalism and informational capitalism has been largely successful in privatizing and re-regulating state-subject-market relations in ways that treat them “as if” they are a market situation. Here, we observe both the increasing commodification of digital forms of knowledge, as well as the commodification of the access to this knowledge. As predominantly non-commercial spaces, libraries serve the vital function of deflecting these developments. In this article, I argue for going one step further and imagining libraries as institutionalized and pedagogical spaces that can negotiate and transgress their institutional limits vis-à-vis public and private resources, discourses, policies, and technologies for the purpose of furthering the commons. In so doing, libraries serve as alter-neoliberal pedagogies, which democratize the construction and deconstruction of knowledge, as well as the access to them. Here, alternative literacies, ways of learning, and ways of being can be prefigured in practice. In imagining these conceptual potentialities of academic and public libraries, this article sets forth an initial agenda toward the commoning library. https://publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/view/24979digital commonspublic spacelibrariesinformational capitalismneoliberalismpublic pedagogy |
| spellingShingle | Dimitris Soudias Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism Journal of Digital Social Research digital commons public space libraries informational capitalism neoliberalism public pedagogy |
| title | Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism |
| title_full | Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism |
| title_fullStr | Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism |
| title_short | Imagining the Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism |
| title_sort | imagining the commoning library alter neoliberal pedagogy in informational capitalism |
| topic | digital commons public space libraries informational capitalism neoliberalism public pedagogy |
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