Abstract

BOSCH, Mela. Biblioclast: Against recorded and accumulated knowledge in the 21st century. Infor [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.2, pp.166-179.  Epub Dec 01, 2022. ISSN 2301-1378.  https://doi.org/10.35643/info.27.2.8.

The author proposes that knowledge as a philosophical entity is embedded in historical and social practices of thought. Also she affirms that recorded and accumulated knowledge impacts, with its ways of organizing in archives and libraries, in the genesis, limits and possibilities of thought. Also maintains that such thinking shapes the very processes of storing and recording the knowledge. Then she analyzes the concept of access in its physical and symbolic aspects, indicating the difference between equal access that is focused on the same quantity and equity that considers quality. Taking as reference the symbolic formations pointed out by Deleuze relates them to the organization of knowledge in libraries and archives. Finally, she presents and exemplifies the expanded concept of biblioclasty, as well as the behaviors, practices, procedures and devices that act to prevent equitable access to knowledge. The author concludes by proposing that access to knowledge is a human condition, so the equitable access to accumulated knowledge will allow space and spread the resistant and resilient expression of minority social groups and has allowed in our century, beyond hierarchies and disciplines, to highlight discursive formations that sustain and reproduce inequities in today’s society.

Keywords : BIBLIOCLAST; EQUITABLE ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION; REGISTERED AND ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE.

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