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2023-03-31
The Politics of Libraries V Keynote Address by Sam Popowich critically examines the relationship between intellectual freedom and democracy. The talk examines how liberal democratic views citizens as fungible and reduces intellectual freedom to a private good. In contrast, an alternative view...
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Open Ideas@UAL 2019 Book of Abstracts
2019-04-05
University of Alberta Libraries
This is the program listing and book of abstracts from the 2019 Open Ideas @UAL is a research symposium that provides UofA libraries academic staff a chance to present their completed and in-progress research. The symposium provides a supportive environment for new and emerging researchers...
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Proxying the Data Body: Artificial Intelligence, Federated Identity, and Machinic Subjection
Download2020-08-06
Academic libraries have recently seen a shift from self-management of user-authentication of licensed resources themselves, to cloud-based implementations of "federated identity" technologies. Such technologies aim to solve the problems of fragile access to licensed resources while also better...
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The Limits of Recognition: Culture and Historical Necessity in the Work of Rawls and Taylor
Download2020-10-30
Canadian political philosophy – particularly the work by Charles Taylor, James Tully, andWill Kymlicka – can be read against the changing landscape of Canadian constitutional and social history. In this paper, I will trace the genealogy of Taylor’s politics of recognition from Rawls’ Theory of...
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Truth Machines: The Political Economy of Command and Control
2017-09-14
This article looks at the socio-economic context of Gilles Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control", and interrogates the technological underpinning of the shift from discipline to control in the centres of advanced capitalism. The paper argues that developments in computer science and...
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2021-04-29
This article investigates the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein from the perspective of Intellectual Freedom in librarianship. The article argues that Intellectual Freedom tends to be informed by individualism and linguistic idealism. This in turn limits IF to advocacy rather than social...