Education, Science And Knowledge Capitalism: Creativity And The Promise Of Openness (global Studies In Education)

We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national economic policy, while globalized multinational science dominates an environment where quality assurance replaces truth as the new regulative ideal. This book examines the nature of educational and science-based capitalism in its cybernetic, knowledge, algorithmic and bioinformational forms before turning to the emergence of the global science system and the promise of openness in the growth of international research collaboration, the development of the global knowledge commons and the rise of the open science economy. Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism explores the nature of cognitive capitalism, the emerging mode of social production for public education and science and its promise for the democratization of knowledge. Cover Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Global Science and Knowledge Capitalism Organization of This Book Notes References Part One | New Forms of Educational Capitalism Chapter 1. Cybernetic Capitalism, Informationalism and Cognitive Labor Cybernetics, Catastrophe, Chaos and Complexity Contemporary Forms of Cybernetic Capitalism Group 1—Informational capitalism: The nature of information/knowledge ‘Informational’, ‘Digital’, ‘Virtual’, ‘Cyber’, ‘Fast’, ‘Hightech’Castells, Shiller, Morris-Suzuki, Schmiede, Fuchs Group 2—Cultural capitalism: The change of culture ‘new culture’,‘knowing capitalism’, ‘new spirit’, ‘cultural economy’ Group 3—Cognitive capitalism: Immaterial labor ‘cognitivecapitalism’, ‘affective capitalism’, ‘immaterial labor’ Group 4—Finance capitalism: ‘Financialization’ Group 5—Biocapitalism & Biopolitics Informational Capitalism Cognitive Capitalism and Immaterial Labor Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2. Education, Creativity and the Economy of Passions: New Forms of Educational Capitalism Introduction: The Creative Economy Knowledge Economy and the Increasing Significance of Aesthetic Capitalism Table 1. History of the Knowledge Economy Table 1. History of the Knowledge Economy (continued) Personal Anarcho-Aesthetics, Creativity and the Roots of Romanticism Creativity and the Design Principle Notes References Chapter 3. Greening the Knowledge Economy: Ecosophy, Ecology and Economy Introduction Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Creativity, Learning and Open Science The Learning Economy A Note on Personal and Tacit Knowledge The Creative Economy The Open Science Economy A Note on Open Education The Logic of Networks Greening the Knowledge Economy: The Postmodern Critique of Neoliberalism Conceptions of the Green Economy Environmental Ethics: From Anthropocentrism to Systems Ecopolitics and Green Capitalism as Foci of Environmental Education Notes References Chapter 4. Biocapitalism and the Politics of Life Introduction The Rise of the New Biology Mapping Biocapital Biocapital/Biocapitalism Biocapitalism and Neoliberalism The Freiburg School of Neoliberalism and Biocapital Foucault’s Call for Struggle Neoliberalism and the Promissory Ethics of Biocapital Notes References Chapter 5. Bioeconomy and Third Industrial Revolution in the Age of Synthetic Life Introduction: the creation of synthetic life The biotech industry as third industrial revolution Notes Reference Chapter 6. Algorithmic Capitalism and Educational Futures Introduction: Algorithmic trading and cloud capitalism Cybernetic and cognitive capitalism The New Logic and Culture of Social Media The Googlization of Education Notes References Chapter 7. Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and Openness Introduction The Learning Economy The Creative Economy The Open Knowledge Economy The Promise of Open Education The Open Science Economy Conclusion Notes References Part Two | The Emergence of the Global Science System and the Promise of Openness Chapter 8. The Rise of Global Science and the Emerging Political Economy of International Research Collaborations Introduction Three ‘Moments’ in the Rise of Global Science First Sketch: Classical Science Second Sketch: Colonial Science Third Sketch: Emergence of ‘Big Science’ and European Collaboration Global Science and Research Collaboration Notes References Chapter 9. ‘Knowledge Economy,’ Economic Crisis and Cognitive Capitalism: Public Education and the Promise of Open Science Introduction ‘Knowledge Economy’ and Emergent Forms of Knowledge Capitalism Financialization and the Economic Crisis Financialization and the Roll-Back of Public Education ‘Crisis’ and Transformation Cognitive Capitalism and Immaterial Labor The Promise of Open Science: Reappropriating the Knowledge Commons Notes References Chapter 10. ‘Openness’ and the Global Knowledge Commons: An Emerging Mode of Social Production for Education and Science Introduction Open Courseware Open Science, the Public Domain and the Global Knowledge Commons: Declarations and Manifestos Open Access, the Public Sphere and Civil Society Concluding Observations Notes References Chapter 11. Open Education and the Open Science Economy Introduction The Emergence of the Open Education Paradigm The Political Economy of Global Science The Economics of Open Science The Argument Concerning Digital Knowledge Goods Towards an Open Science Economy Mode of Open Production Open Science Economy Concluding Observations Notes References Chapter 12. Digital Technologies in the Age of YouTube: Electronic Textualities, the Virtual Revolution and the Democratization of Knowledge Introduction: Electronic Textuality The Virtual Revolution and the Democratization of Knowledge Anti-Democratizing Trends A Reconciliation? Educational and Political Significance of New Social Media Notes References Chapter 13. Manifesto for Education in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism: Freedom, Creativity and Culture Manifestos, Art and Politics Designing Educational Futures and Knowledge Cultures Freedom Freedom, Openness and Creativity Creativity as the New Development Paradigm Notes References Index