[Upd-discuss] Lazzarato: European cultural tradition and the new forms of production and circulation of knowledge

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

Lazzarato, Maurizio (2004) European cultural tradition and the new forms
of production and circulation of knowledge. Multitudes : une revue
trimestrielle, politique, artistique et culturelle(16 January).

http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=1292	

Deposited at the Open Archive E-LIS, e-prints in Library and Information
Science:
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005480/
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005480/01/Lazzaratoknowledge2004.pdf

Abstract

Not, perhaps, since the printing press's invention has European culture
experienced so much upheaval. The very underpinnings of the notion of
culture and of its modes of production, socialisation and appropriation
are under attack. I am speaking, of course, of culture's integration in
the creation of economic value. This integration process has accelerated
since the beginning of the 1980s through, on one hand, the globalisation
and increasing pervasion of finance in the economy, and on the other, the
onslaught of so-called "new technologies". Many have raised their voices
in defence of culture, intellectuals and artists. The strongest and most
organised oppositon to culture's subordination to economics came together
when commercial relations regarding audiovisual production were being
renegotiated, and around the issue of "authors' rights" -- the very
definition of which is open to discussion once new media are in the
picture. Translated by Bram Dov.
Keywords:	Europe. Cultural traditions. Production and circulation of
knowledge. Production and circulation of books. Socialization of
knowledge. New Information and Communication Technologies. Political
economy. Information economy. Authors' rights
Subjects:	E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property:
author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft.
B. Information use and sociology of information. > BC. Information in
society.
B. Information use and sociology of information. > BD. Information
society.
B. Information use and sociology of information. > BE. Information
economics.
ID Code:	5480
Deposited By:	Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín
Deposited On:	24 January 2006
Alternative Locations:	http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=1292

Zapopan Muela
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"Tiranos y autócratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, 
el conocimiento, los libros y los periódicos son un peligro 
en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso
de rebeldía en las cabezas de sus súbditos.
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"Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, 
learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. 
They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads 
of their subjects."
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-- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en la 
oscuridad. México: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362.

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