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The chapter considers knowledge socialism in relation to the production of the self in the digital age. It explores the extent to which the URL versions of ourselves are portraits. We ask to what degree a lack of interpersonal engagement has resulted in a diminished awareness and ownership of the processes through which we acquire knowledge. Art practice as institutional critique is explored as a means to test strategies to regain consciousness of the self and one’s environment. Aspects of knowledge exchange are outlined from the perspectives of Bourdieu, Dewey, and Peters alongside the Black Quantum Futurists, Cassie Thornton, Eve and Franko Mattes, the Ideal Spaces group, Lynn Hershmann Leeson and Helen Hester. This chapter explores the issues and actions of the digital self in relation to art practice as a method of learning and increased consciousness.
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See https://www.idealspaces.org/about. Accessed 28 September 2019.
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See https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/workshops. Accessed 28 September 2019.
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More information at https://www.vertighost.net. Accessed 28 September 2019.
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Bothwell, D.M., Stewart, P.A. (2020). Knowledge Exchange and Knowing: The Self, Art Practice and the Digital. In: Peters, M.A., Besley, T., Jandrić, P., Zhu, X. (eds) Knowledge Socialism. East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8126-3_14
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