Description |
2 volumes ; 21 cm |
Contents |
Book I. Radical scholarship -- Book 2. The anti-capitalist sublime |
Summary |
"Knowledge, Spirit, Law - as project - is a de facto phenomenology of scholarship in the age of Cognitive Capitalism. The six essays (plus Appendices) presented here cover topics and circle themes related to the problems and crises specific to neo-liberal academia, while proposing creative paths around the various obstructions. The obstructions include metrics-obsessed academia, circular and incestuous peer review, digitalization of research as stalking horse for text- and data-mining, and violation by global corporate fiat of Intellectual Property Rights and the Moral Rights of Authors. These issues, while addressed obliquely in the main text, definitively inform the various implied proscriptive aspects of the essays and, via the Introduction and Appendices, underscore the necessity of developing new-old means to no obvious end in the production of knowledge - that is to say, a return to forms of non-instrumentalized intellectual inquiry. To be developed in two concurrent volumes, Knowledge, Spirit, Law will serve as a "moving and/or shifting anthology" of new forms of expression in humanistic studies"--Page 4 of cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Academic freedom.
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ISBN |
9780692558447 (v. 1 ;) (paperback) |
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0692558446 (v. 1 ;) (paperback) |
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