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A Crisis of Knowledge: Themes for an Engaged University Curriculum
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A Crisis of Knowledge: Themes for an Engaged University Curriculum

David Davies and James Nyland
Curriculum Challenges for Universities: Agenda For Change, pp.59-72
Springer, 1st
03/2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8582-8_4

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Abstract

We are at a new conjuncture in the crisis of knowledge. The phenomenal growth of the internet and the digital economy presents us with both unknown opportunities and threats to our lives and futures. There has been an explosion of knowledge and of opportunities to access some of that knowledge by everyone who can access a mobile phone or computer. This is, literally, a world population that is developing a ‘universal’ and apparently insatiable demand and desire for communication, information and entertainment. Yet the new forms of capitalism that are dependent upon and are expressed through the digital-techno world tend to destroy localism, threatening established ways of life, communities and cultures and social cohesion. There are even those who argue that we face a ‘totalitarian’ and accelerating form of social life under modern capitalism that can absorb and recuperate for its own purposes all forms of opposition and forces for positive and progressive change (Noys Malign velocities: accelerationism and capitalism, Zero Books, 2014).

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