A Manifesto to Liberate Science: Organic knowledge(s)

"Is a scientific commons that exists alongside, yet in defiance of, the established hierarchy even possible?

Rather than an ecosystem polluted by capitalist scarcity, we enrich and sustain an alternative through collaboration and communication. We are in the process of becoming a sustainable ecosystem of abundance. We build a symbiotic cycle (rhizosphere) with nutrients, fungi (other ways of knowing), and dirt (the stuff of which knowledge is made). We are becoming rhizomatic.

We are an ecology of knowledge, not a Knowledge™ economy. In an endlessly growing system, we remain distinct from one another but also simultaneously interconnected. Many mistake us for roots, but we have no use for stasis. We nourish an ecology of knowledge to enrich-embody-perpetuate. Release, flux, flow. Connections and connectivity, multiples within a multiplicity. Where one part withers, the rhizosphere enlivens another.

We know lasting change requires time to grow organically and sustainably. Our constantly expanding rhizome ensures the inevitable take-over of fields, which is to say, the field of science commons.

We take our cues from those who have been here before us, the predecessors to our fugitivity provide direction, multiplication, a becoming-other to the way things have been done.

Who is this for, you ask? Everyone striving for knowledge — researchers, scholars, activists, and technologists. Those inside and outside the community, seeking to actively contribute to the pursuit of knowledge beyond reputation...."