Filozofija, znanje i društvo znanja
Philosophy, knowledge and society of knowledge

Summary/Abstract: The knowledgeable societies is a phrase that signifies the goal of modern capitalist society as one that is fundamentally seen as the necessity of mastering technological knowledge and its development in the creation of economic benefit. The knowledgeable society is thus exclusively a technological-economic concept, in fact a technological-market concept that equates society and the market, because it assumes that knowledge is not only a means of producing goods, but that by itself is only a commodity ("knowledge transfer") where its value establishes the market. Thus, in the last decades, the only knowledge that can be accepted as knowledge, has become only and exclusively technological-information knowledge that enables the largest and fastest turnover of capital on the market. Thus, the knowledgeable society is not a society that sets the ideal of all knowledge, as one might think from this attractive phrase, but a society of exclusively technological, commercially usable knowledge. Therefore, the knowledgeable society is just a neoliberal phrase which, insisting that the only technological knowledge is knowledge, actually wants to build a society according to the principles of technology. That is why the issue is no longer about the idea of society, but only about technologically, market-networked obedient and automated individuals who perform their informative and communicative tasks.

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