unsetting knowledges

unsettling knowledges
transversal web journal

The crises within cognitive capitalism and cognitive labor are mirrored in the reproduction and exacerbation of global divisions of labor and the emergence of new forms of exploitation as part of a regime of flexible capital accumulation. While drastic austerity measures and heightened control mechanisms lead to a radical transformation of the welfare state on the one hand, new networks of communication, struggle and alternative forms of knowledge emerge on the other.

This issue of transversal attempts to review some of the general assumptions of a theory of cognitive capitalism and to unsettle the very notions of knowledge and its production, discussing the conditions of its capture, its “re-invention” and its capacity for creating worlds. The individual essays follow the lines of a (post-)colonial historicity and a feminist and geopolitical critique of capitalist valorization, thereby questioning the materiality of knowledge and its production in relation to resources and bodies, as well as how art and knowledge production are interwoven with political struggles.

http://eipcp.net/transversal/0112

Contents
Lina Dokuzović: The Resource Crisis and the Global Repercussions of Knowledge Economies
Silvia Federici: African Roots of US University Struggles. From the Occupy Movement to the Anti-Student-Debt Campaign
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez: AFFECTIVE Value. On Coloniality, Feminization and Migration
Therese Kaufmann: Materiality of Knowledge
Christian Kravagna: The Trees of Knowledge: Anthropology, Art, and Politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston – Harlem ca. 1930
Brigitta Kuster: The Imperceptibility of Memory
Sandro Mezzadra: How Many Histories of Labor? Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Capitalism
Walter Mignolo: Geopolitics of Sensing and Knowing. On (De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience
Raimund Minichbauer: Fragmented Collectives. On the Politics of “Collective Intelligence” in Electronic Networks

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