Abstract
This chapter presents a collective response to the propositions and provocations raised in Michael Peters’ 2019 essay ‘Knowledge socialism: The rise of peer production—collegiality, collaboration, and collective intelligence’. For Peters, knowledge socialism pushes back against, deconstructs, or otherwise critically engages with, the individualization and proprietization of knowledge. As such, there’s something important to explore regarding the role of scholars, academics and their individual contributions towards a collective project. This chapter emerges within a wider project, on the road to knowledge socialism, of peer review, peer production, academic publishing and the life of the scholar. Peters regards this wider project as a movement aimed at amplifying collegiality, collaboration and collective intelligence, in which knowledge socialism is explored and enacted philosophically. In this chapter, the movement is explored in themes of liberating social knowledges, criminal relationships with the university, the professionalization of knowledge and the burden of openness. The chapter concludes with a response from Michael A. Peters.
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