Given the nature of Library Camps in general, this was not delivered as a presentation. Rather, the ideas and quotes within these slides formed the foundation for the discussion. Ultimately, the purpose was to identify the extent to which librarians and information professionals can play a role in challenging political and economic orthodoxies.

1. FACILITATING
DISSENT

2. There is a basic
in governments - however
massive their armies, however wealthy their treasuries,
however they
public - because their
the
given to the
depends on the
of citizens, of soldiers, of civil servants, of
journalists and writers and teachers and artists. When
these people begin to suspect they have been
and when they
government loses its
,
their support, the
, and its
.
Zinn, H. (2003) A Chorus Against War http://progressive.org/zinn0303.html

3. Chomsky, N. (1994) The Media http://books.zcommunications.org/chomsky/sld/sld-1-09.html

4. It has been a gradual realisation that not only
is society not receptive to the data and
information but that society will organise to
explicitly frustrate and deny the science in
order to maintain the status quo.
Rees, B. (2013), Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of
Neoclassical Economics. Seven Stories Press.

5. we don’t respond to the
data…what is it about the
human mind that is so easily
fooled into doing something
that is self-destructive
when all the evidence is
clear that [exhaustion] is the
case?
Rees, B. (2013), Meme Wars: The
Creative Destruction of Neoclassical
Economics. Seven Stories Press.

6. Britain is a master case study…
…to understand how ideology and
propaganda work in a free market.
De Oliviera, B. (2013), Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics. Seven Stories Press.

7. DISOBEDIENCE
liberty.
OBEDIENT
slaves.
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9. Lasn, K. (2013), Meme Wars: The
Creative Destruction of
Neoclassical Economics. Seven
Stories Press.

10. Lasn, K. (2013), Meme Wars: The Creative
Destruction of Neoclassical Economics. Seven
Stories Press.

11. Lasn, K. (2013), Meme Wars: The Creative
Destruction of Neoclassical Economics. Seven
Stories Press.

12. THE LIBRARIAN?