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04287aam a2200361 i 4500 001 A5E4F63825A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211005010046 008 201127s2021 nyua b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020044684 020 $a 1644211254 020 $a 9781644211250 020 $a 1644210606 020 $a 9781644210604 035 $a (OCoLC)1227816943 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d TOH $d NTD $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HM651 K385 2021 100 1 $a Kaufman, Peter B., $d 1963- $e author. 245 14 $a The new enlightenment and the fight to free knowledge / $c Peter B. Kaufman. 264 1 $a New York : $b Seven Stories Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 256 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a The Monsterverse -- The encyclopeÌdie -- The commissariat -- The new network -- Visual education (I) -- Visual education (II) -- Our rights -- Our commons -- Our network -- Our archive -- Our moment. 520 $a "In THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT, MIT Open Learning's Peter B. Kaufman describes the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely. Popes and their inquisitors, emperors and their hangmen, commissars and their secret police - throughout history, all have sought to staunch the free flow of information. Kaufman writes of times when the Bible could not be translated - you'd be burned for trying; when dictionaries and encyclopedias were forbidden; when literature and science and history books were trashed and pulped - sometimes along with their authors; and when efforts to develop public television and radio networks were quashed by private industry. In the 21st century, the enemies of free thought have taken on new and different guises - giant corporate behemoths, sprawling national security agencies, gutted regulatory commissions. Bereft of any real moral compass or sense of social responsibility, their work to surveil and control us are no less nefarious than their 16th- and 18th- and 20th- century predecessors'. They are all part of what Kaufman calls the Monsterverse. THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT maps out the opportunities to mobilize for the fight ahead of us. With the Internet and other means of media production and distribution - video especially - at hand, knowledge institutions like universities, libraries, museums, and archives have a special responsibility now to counter misinformation, disinformation, and fake news - and especially efforts to control the free flow of information. A film and video producer and former book publisher, Kaufman begins to draft a new social contract for our networked video age. He draws his inspiration from those who fought tooth and nail against earlier incarnations of the Monsterverse - including William Tyndale in the 16th century; Denis Diderot in the 18th; untold numbers of Soviet and Central and East European dissidents in the 20th - many of whom paid the ultimate price. Their successors? Advocates of free knowledge like Aaron Swartz, of free software like Richard Stallman, of an enlightened public television and radio network like James Killian, of a freer Internet like Tim Berners-Lee, of fuller rights and freedoms like Edward Snowden. All have been striving to secure for us a better world, marked by the right balance between state, society, and private gain. The concluding section of the book, its largest piece, builds on their work, drawing up a progressive agenda for how today's free thinkers can band together now to fight and win. With everything shut and everyone going online, THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT is a rousing call to action that expands the definition of what it means to be a citizen in the 21st century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Knowledge, Sociology of $x History. 650 0 $a Freedom of information. 650 0 $a Enlightenment $x Influence. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kaufman, Peter B. $t New enlightenment and the fight to free knowledge $d New York : Seven Stories Press, 2021 $z 9781644210611 $w (DLC) 2020044685 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220105015525.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5E4F63825A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search