Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect : Beyond the Knowledge Economy

Springer Verlag (2021)
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Abstract

This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem, demonstrating how the left’s embrace of knowledge productivity keeps it trapped within capital’s circuits. As the knowledge economy has forced questions of education to the forefront, the book engages pedagogy as an underlying yet neglected motor of capitalism and its forms of oppression. Most importantly, it assembles new pedagogical resources for responding to the range of injustices that permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive.

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Chapters

The Knowledge Economy and Its Critics

This chapter surveys the dominant landscape of the knowledge economy today, from right to left, via the center. Each recognizes the increasingly central role of knowledge in the production and reproduction of economic value, social relations, and life. Because they’re taking different class viewpoin... see more

The General Intellect and the Struggle over the Knowledge Economy

The left sees struggles over the knowledge economy as battles for what Marx called the “general intellect.” After clarifying that capital has always expropriated knowledge, the chapter shows the role of the general intellect in the transformation from Fordism to post-Fordism, as socialist and anti-c... see more

A Pedagogical Exodus: Stupidity

If the reproduction of inequality and oppression are, in a fundamental way, about educational form, then those interested in mobilizing against capitalism and colonialism and their forms of oppression need to develop alternative pedagogies. So long as left critiques of and responses to the knowledge... see more

The Educational Consensus: You Must Learn!

This chapter demonstrates the underlying educational logic across the political spectrum of the knowledge economy: the demand to learn and never stop learning. The right-wing pays the most explicit attention to education and educational systems. When the left does articulate education, it articulate... see more

Introduction: Beyond the Knowledge Economy

Over the last several decades, knowledge has emerged as the undisputed key to unlocking worldly potential. Clarifying why the author chooses the designator “knowledge economy,” this chapter introduces some distinct and antagonistic conceptions of the knowledge economy and the political orientations ... see more

The General Line of the General Intellect

There is an apparent inconsistency or paradox is this book, which advances stupidity as a form of resistance to the knowledge economy through the creation of knowledge as expressed in written—and therefore articulated, communicable, exchangeable, and commodifiable form. Yet this is not quite an abso... see more

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