Knowledge Socialism and the Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Knowledge socialism is a term that refers to a new global collectivist society that is coming online based on communal aspects of digital culture including sharing, cooperation, collaboration, peer production and collective intelligence. This symposium explores the way our collective digital tools have the power to create the intellectual commons and reshape our minds. Presentations explore knowledge socialism as a philosophical concept that has the power both to explain aspects of current knowledge practices but also certain contradictions in the structure and practice of knowledge capitalism. Presentations explain knowledge socialism as an historical practice, as a part of knowledge capitalism, and as a complicit aspect of algorithmic capitalism.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Marxian Analysis of Society, Schools and Education

Chair

• Michael Jopling, University of Wolverhampton

Papers

• The Evolution of a Concept: From Knowledge Capitalism Through Knowledge Cultures to Knowledge Socialism - Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University

• Postdigital Knowledge Socialism - Petar Jandric, Polytechnic of Zagreb

• Knowledge Socialism: A Dead "Exchange," or a Living Process of "Exchanging," Knowledge? - Sarah Hayes, University of Wolverhampton

• General Stupidity as a Missing Component of General Intellect - Derek R. Ford, DePauw University

Discussant

• Bradley J. Porfilio, San Jose State University