Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge

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ID6451951
AuthorsSiyaves Azeri (0000-0002-3765-2489, Babeș-Bolyai University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume39
Issue3
Pages241-261
Publication date2024-03-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Epistemology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0269-1728 • E-ISSN: 1464-5297
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02691728.2024.2308879
OpenAlexW4392589065
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

According to some commentators, the introduction of digital technologies into the sphere of knowledge-production and the consequent digitalization and computerization of this field have radically changed the nature of knowledge-producing activity and the produced knowledge. At the social level, such a change has allegedly caused the irrelevance of grand narratives and emergence of paralogies or the obsolescence of the labour theory of value, which in its turn signifies the end of capitalism. It is argued that such accounts simply disregard the social form of production of knowledge. The real revolutionary effect of digitalization, in resemblance to the introduction of machinery in large-scale industrial production, is intensification of knowledge-producing labour, which in its turn signifies the various forms of subsumption of knowledge-producing activity under capital and the appropriation of the commonly produced surplus-knowledge by it

Appropriation · Business · Economics · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Microeconomics · Production (economics · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Philosophy

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