%0 Journal Article
%T Postdigital Knowledge Cultures and Their Politics
%A Michael A. Peters
%A Petar Jandri£¿
%A Tina Besley
%J ECNU Review of Education
%@ 2632-1742
%D 2018
%R 10.30926/ecnuroe2018010202
%X ¡ªThis paper aims at exploring politics of contemporary knowledge cultures and possible directions for responding to the postdigital challenge. ¡ªThis paper researches history and present of several prominent strands and readings of the knowledge economy. Following Caruso's work (2016), it examines more closely the differences between the managerial paradigm and the cognitive capitalism paradigm. Recognizing the postdigital nature of contemporary knowledge cultures, it points towards a postdigital merger between the managerial paradigm and the cognitive capitalism paradigm. ¡ªThe paper identifies individual and social tensions between industrial and post-industrial modes of production and rapidly changing dynamic of social development. It examines the relationships between knowledge cultures and digital technologies. Based on recent insights by the father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee and his non-determinist views to digital technologies, it identifies knowledge cultures as sites of political struggle against various (material and non-material, technological and non-technological) closures over access to information and knowledge. Finally, it briefly outlines possible directions for responding to the postdigital challenge of knowledge cultures. ¡ªThe paper provides an original contribution to theory of knowledge cultures and its relationships to the postdigital condition
%K Knowledge cultures
%K postdigital
%K knowledge economy
%K managerial capitalism
%K cognitive capitalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.30926/ecnuroe2018010202