Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Libraries
A talk by Ruth Rikowski at CILIP-in-London
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professional (CILIP)
Wednesday 11th September 2024
This presentation critically explores consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for libraries, library organisation and library staff development and employment
Ruth's talk is now on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OleU9tvuPoc
For more on Ruth's work, see: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Libraries
A Presentation at CILIP-in-London
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
By Ruth Rikowski
Wednesday, 11th September 2024
The full PowerPoint for Ruth's presentation is now available at Academia: https://www.academia.edu/127417862/Artificial_Intelligence_AI_and_Libraries_for_CILIP_in_London
For more on Ruth's work, see: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
This is my chapter in Stammering as Dada: Mike Neary and Critical Education, edited by Stephen Cowden, Gary Saunders and Joss Winn (2025, Peter Lang):
Rikowski,
G. (2025) Value Vortex Weavings: Karl Marx’s Social Time, Labour-Power and
Education, in: S. Cowden, G. Saunders and J. Winn (eds.) Stammering
as Dada: Mike Neary and Critical Education, pp.263-282. Oxford:
Peter Lang.
Abstract (for this chapter):
In 1993, Time, Labor and Social Domination: A reinterpretation of Marx’s critical theory, by Moishe Postone was published. In 1996, I purchased a paperback version. After alerting Mike Neary to Postone’s book, for the next eight years, at particular moments, Mike and I discussed salient issues within it: e.g. value, labour, abstract labour, and Postone’s critique of traditional Marxism – but most of all, we discussed Postone’s views on time. The autobiographical Introduction provides the context for the focus on Marx’s socially necessary labour-time. Part 1 explores Mike’s conception of the Value Vortex, referred to in Neary (2020a). Part 2 examines the notion of weaving and its relation to the Value Vortex and social form. This brings into play Mike’s appreciation of the works of Lucretius and Thomas Nail in the last five years of his life. Part 3 reveals Karl Marx’s social time; what appears as capital’s time based on Marx’s concept of socially necessary labour-time (SNLT). Part 4 examines some implications of labour-power production in education as a machine for speeding up social time. The Conclusion draws ideas from the previous sections together and invokes Mike’s commitment to unravelling value and capital’s social time through critique and practice.
Summary of the book (from the publishers):
Mike
Neary was a renowned critical educator, Professor of Sociology at the
University of Lincoln, and a founding member of the Social Science Centre,
Lincoln. He died in January 2023, and in the months prior to his death, the
editors of this book met with Mike and, with his guidance, worked with him on a
collection of his writings. Mike was once asked why he wrote and he responded,
“I write for the future” This book gathers some of his key writings to keep
alive the critical legacy which Mike’s life and work embodied. It contains a
body of work written by Mike on his own, with his close collaborators, as well
as contributions written about him. The work gathered here in this book attests
to Mike’s lifelong critical engagement with the work of Karl Marx, and as his
work shows, this is an engagement on terms which are uniquely his own,
reflecting Mike’s unique vision, his deep egalitarianism, his personal warmth,
and his critical intellect.
Contents
Series Editors’ Preface – Stammering as Dada: Mike Neary and Critical Education
Jones
Erwin and Stephen Cowden
Mike Neary interviewed by Stephen Cowden: The Thinginess of Things
Mike
Neary and Stephen Cowden
An Introduction to the Work of Karl Marx: Science of Revolution and
Revolutionary Science
Mike
Neary
Critical Theory as the Critique of Labour
Mike
Neary
Pedagogy in Paradise: Higher Learning and the Metamorphosis of a
Derelict City – a Rhythmanalysis
Mike
Neary
Student as Producer and the Politics of Abolition: Making a New Form of
Dissident Institution?
Mike
Neary and Gary Saunders
Pedagogy of Hate
Mike
Neary
The Social Science Centre, Lincoln: The Theory and Practice of a Radical
Idea
Mike
Neary and Joss Winn
Beyond Public and Private: A Framework for Co- operative Higher
Education
Mike
Neary and Joss Winn
Civic University or University of the Earth? A Call for Intellectual
Insurgency
Mike
Neary
We Stammer (To Be Read Aloud)
Mike
Neary
‘Student as Producer’: A Disruptive Theory for Our Times
Cath
Lambert
Value Vortex Weavings: Karl Marx’s Social Time, Labour-Power and
Education
Glenn
Rikowski
Afterword: Mike Neary and the Power of Revolutionary Optimism
Antonia
Darder and Gordon Asher
Details
Stammering as Dada: Mike Neary and Critical Education
Edited
by Stephen Cowden, Joss Winn and Gary Saunders
Peter
Lang (publishers): https://www.peterlang.com/document/1493241
Series: New Disciplinary Perspectives on Education, Volume 9
Pages XII, 302
Publication
Year 2025
ISBN
(PDF) 9781803741161
ISBN
(ePUB) 9781803741178
ISBN
(Softcover) 9781803741154
DOI 10.3726/b20611
Language English
Keywords Critical Pedagogy, Marxism, Education
STAMMERING AS DADA
MIKE NEARY AND CRITICAL EDUCATION
STAMMERING AS DADA: MIKE NEARY AND CRITICAL EDUCATION.
Edited
by Stephen Cowden, Joss Winn, and Gary Saunders.
Published
by Peter Lang, in the 'New Disciplinary Perspectives on Education' Series,
Volume 9.
This
book will be available from 11 December 2024.
From
the Peter Lang (publishers): https://www.peterlang.com/document/1493241
Available
also from Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and !ndigo.
Publisher's
Summary:
Mike
Neary was a renowned critical educator, Professor of Sociology at the University
of Lincoln, and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln. He
died in January 2023, and in the months prior to his death, the editors of this
book met with Mike and, with his guidance, worked with him on a collection of
his writings. Mike was once asked why he wrote and he responded, “I write for
the future” This book gathers some of his key writings to keep alive the
critical legacy which Mike’s life and work embodied. It contains a body of work
written by Mike on his own, with his close collaborators, as well as
contributions written about him. The work gathered here in this book attests to
Mike’s lifelong critical engagement with the work of Karl Marx, and as his work
shows, this is an engagement on terms which are uniquely his own, reflecting
Mike’s unique vision, his deep egalitarianism, his personal warmth, and his
critical intellect.
My
chapter is: "Value Vortex Weavings: Karl Marx's Social Time, Labour-Power
and Education".
Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
Academia:
https://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Glenn-Rikowski
APHORISMS ON THE CRITIQUE OF PEDAGOGY
Preface
(i). What is presented in this paper is not a
critique of critical pedagogy, but a critique of pedagogy
itself.
(ii). Yet this critique is not an idealist,
transhistorical, instrumental or analytical philosophical concoction.
(iii). Rather, it is a critique of pedagogy in its
historically capitalist form; or, critique
of the specifically capitalist form of
pedagogy.
(iv). All this is undertaken through Marxist
science.
Academia: https://www.academia.edu/125194423/Aphorisms_on_the_Critique_of_Pedagogy
ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385417744_Aphorisms_on_the_Critique_of_Pedagogy
Glenn Rikowski
This is a paper I presented at the recent Historical Materialism London Conference, SOAS, 2024.
Abstract:
Following a brief outline of labour-power through Marx, Ciccarelli (2021) and my own work, it is argued that the fragmentation of Marxist work on labour-power undermines what is critical for its understanding in contemporary society: the notion that labour-power is a ‘unity of the diverse’ (Marx). In Marxist theory and empirical work today, labour-power as ‘unity’, as a unified social force within humans, is sacrificed to its ‘diversity’. The result is theorisations and empirical research that split the study of labour-power into seemingly competing projects; either as arguments regarding whether the key focus should be on the social production of labour-power through education and training, or the social reproduction of labour-power through the family and domestic labour. This paper argues that labour–power is better viewed through its various diversities that constitute its unity. Each of these diversities is a spectral (but real) point in analysis of labour-power, but its unity blends the pinpointing analysis of its diversities. These labour-power diversities are social forms of its social re/production that are manifested in and through various institutions in capitalist society. In this light, the following diversities of labour-power and their institutional forms can be viewed directly through the work of Marx: the social production of labour-power (e.g. in education and training); its social reproduction 1 (e.g. through the family and domestic labour); social reproduction 2 (e.g. through state pensions, unemployment benefits); maintenance of labourers 1 (e.g. through consumption, food); maintenance of labourers 2 (e.g. through health, and mental health services). These labour-power diversities constitute a web of social forms shaping labour-power in contemporary capitalism. The paper ends by exploring some recent empirical examples illustrating how moving between the spectral points of labour–power and its diversities solidifies their unity in analysis.
The paper is now available at:
Academia: https://www.academia.edu/124791066/Labour_Power_Points
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384971765_LABOUR-POWER-POINTS
Glenn Rikowski
This is a critique of Luis Arboledas-Lérida's article, The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication—https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2111670—for the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.
It is now online at:
Arboledas-Lérida's article was published in 'Social Epistemology' online on 21 September. This critical review was published in Social Epistemology Review & Reply Collective on 11 January 2023.
See: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-7uV Cite as: Rikowski, Glenn. 2023. Some Thoughts on Science, Dialectics and Capital—After Luis Arboledas-Lérida. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (1): 13-21. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-7uV.
Posted
here by Glenn Rikowski:
@
Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
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ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Glenn-Rikowski
