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Peter B. Kaufman
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Peter B. Kaufman, a writer, producer, and educator, is Senior Program Officer at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE FIGHT TO FREE KNOWLEDGE (2021). His new book, THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S GUIDE, comes out in February 2025 from the MIT Press.
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Published: Feb 23, 2021
This is a book of hope—and fire. It is set in the modern-day version of William Tyndale’s Monsterverse. Every age has had its evil—and history shows us that tuning into that evil is central to succeeding in acting against it.
Published: Feb 23, 2021
What is knowledge if it isn't true and verifiable? The Encyclopédie project of the original Enlightenment tackled this question with extraordinary ambition and accomplishment, paving the way for one of today's greatest free resources, Wikipedia.
Published: Feb 23, 2021
The architecture of totalitarian thought control is nefarious, and the Soviet system executed that design to perfection. Chilling perfection. Or almost.
Published: Feb 23, 2021
Video lies at the heart of the modern Enlightenment, now a new Republic of Images.
Published: Feb 23, 2021
It may be time to update the Terms of Service contracts - the social contracts - under which we operate. Information is born free, yet everywhere it finds itself in chains.
Published: Feb 23, 2021
Today, said President Lyndon Johnson, “we rededicate a part of the airwaves—which belong to all the people—and we dedicate them for the enlightenment of all the people.”
Published: Feb 23, 2021
"'They should take the business of guidance in this new world as a sacred trust, knowing they have the power to influence an enormous democracy.'”
Published: Feb 23, 2021
On Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, and what MIT's Sanjay Sarma calls the Ziggurat of Facts.
Published: Feb 23, 2021
About the myriad unhealthy dependencies on commercial enterprises that our knowledge institutions have developed. And the responsibility we have to engage with free and liberal licenses, and free and open standards, for our content, our software, and our work.
Published: Feb 23, 2021
It is no accident that the etymology of the word “archive” comes from the Greek ἄρχω—“to begin, rule, govern”—and thus no accident that “archive” shares the same root as the words “monarch” and “hierarchy.”
Published: Feb 23, 2021
We have to convene more regular conversations, publish more systematic financial and legal analyses, produce more frequent programming, curate more substantial exhibitions, and teach more detailed courses about restoring our control over the information economy.
