Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice
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Knowledge of the knowledge of labor for sale To speak of the commercialization of epistemology is to speak of the commodification of knowledge about knowledge. To speak of the construction of knowledge about knowledge is to invoke the convergence of interests around the object that this ‘knowledge about’ constructs. 4 The configuration of interests makes this object, and the object so made holds the interests together. In this way, to speak of the commercialization of epistemology is to invoke a configuration of instrumentalizations of the object posited through epistemological endeavors. Not that the meaning of the object has to be the same for the interests that it holds together. Its meaning must be malleable enough to be incorporated into the different shapes of different lives, but be robust enough to provide fodder for its incorporation. This practical ambivalence of objects created as knowledge gives life to the political economy of academic research: it is difficult to survive in the ivory castle making knowledge that few recognize or are interested in, though it is possible to survive even if others use the object differently. Thus, to speak of the commercialization of any knowledge is to speak of the mapping of a commercial logic onto an
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