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[chox] Fwd: [lib-info-society] Article: The age of the corporate State versus the informational and cognitive public domain



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From: Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza <zapopanmuela yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2006 2:27 AM
Subject: [lib-info-society] Article: The age of the corporate State
versus the informational and cognitive public domain
To: Lib InfoSociety <lib-info-society yahoogroups.com>


Dear colleagues and friends,

I share with you this article I wrote recently. Please feel free to
re-republish it, to share it, store it, copy it, distribute it or whatever
in any terrestrial or extraterrestrial medium. And if you re-publish it
or link it somewhere, please forward me the reference, just to know. Best
of all, read it and share with me your comments.

Regards,

Vorwarts!

Zapopan
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Article: The age of the corporate State versus the informational and
cognitive public domain

Author:
By: Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza
zapopanmuela(at)yahoo.com
PhD research student in Information Studies
University of Sheffield

[English version]
http://geocities.com/zapopanmuela/corpstatevspublicdomain.html

[Spanish original]
http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/anteriores/n44/zmuela.html

Sheffield, UK 28 February 2005

Abstract:

This article analyse the concepts of the bourgeois State, the capitalistic
corporations and the democratic public domain. The main thesis is that
nowadays, inside the societies ruled by the capitalistic-imperialistic
systems of production, the States are deeply fused to the corporations and
both orders has transformed into one indivisible entity. Thus, it is
analysed how along with the advent of this corporate State humankind
arrives to one of its most dangerous stages, where if the alternative
forces to capitalism-imperialism are not capable to force under the rule
of law or dismantle its prime agent which is the corporation (capitalistic
companies), then humankind is under peril to have its democratic order
hollowed-out or destroyed completely by the corporate State. Particularly,
throughout the paper there are evidences of how the corporate State has
corroded already part of the public domain in the library sector by means
of capitalistic commoditization and privatization of its services.
Evidences expose the corporation's character of lacking of ethics, moral
or markedly psychopathic. Finally, it is advocated for citizens to
re-establish the public domain and to force corporations under the rule of
law to be judged by the enforced legal accountability of responsibilities
of each of its members on an individual basis as how actually happens to
any common citizen of the public.

Keywords:

Informational and cognitive capitalism. Public domain. Public Interest.
Public sphere. Citizens. Cultural political economy. Libraries.
Repositories of public knowledge.


This article has been originally published at the Mexican electronic peer
reviewed journal Razón y Palabra: Primera Revista Electrónica en América
Latina Especializada en Tópicos de Comunicación (Reason and Word: The
First Electronic Journal in Latin America Especialized in Topics of
Communication):

Muela-Meza, Z.M. (2005). "La era del estado empresarial versus el dominio
público informacional y cognitivo." En: Razón y Palabra: Primera Revista
Electrónica en América Latina Especializada en Tópicos de Comunicación.
Abril-mayo 2005, (44).
http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/anteriores/n44/zmuela.html
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003658/

Open Access to full text archived at E-LIS the international Open Archive
for Library and Information Science:

[English version]
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003658/

[Spanish original]
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003658/



Zapopan Muela
----------------------------- v -------------------------------
"Tiranos y autócratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo,
el conocimiento, los libros y los periódicos son un peligro
en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso
de rebeldía en las cabezas de sus súbditos.
----------------------------- v -------------------------------
"Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy,
learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous.
They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads
of their subjects."
----------------------------- v -------------------------------
-- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en la
oscuridad. México: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362.

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