36th chat, June 30 2015: critiquing #critlib

moderated by @jacobsberg
Storify (pdf, html) by @foureyedsoul

Suggested resources:

• Timothy Mitchell’s “Rule of Experts,” excerpt or review forthcoming http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520232624,
• Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction by Emily Drabinski: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669547 (poke @edrabinski for a copy!)
• Libraries and postmodernity: a review Radical Cataloging by Jacob Berg http://beerbrarian.blogspot.com/2012/06/libraries-and-postmodernity-review-of.html

Discussion questions:

• Q1. Is the terminology used by #critlib a barrier to entry to it?
• Q2. As a product of the academy, to what extent is #critlib using “the master’s tools” to dismantle it?
• Q3. If the goal of #critlib is to be emancipatory do practitioners have a duty to evangelize?
• Q4. Critical approaches to librarianship often depend on the interpretation of participants to make meaning. Does this make #critlib too personal? That is, are we too close to our methods?