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(2020) . Iterable Ciphers for Insurrection. Communications in Information Literacy, 14 (1), 27-45. Retrieved from [https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/vol14/iss1/3](https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/vol14/iss1/3)  \nThis Perspective is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communications in Information Literacy by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact [pdxscholar@pdx.edu](pdxscholar@pdx.edu).  \nIterable Ciphers for Insurrection  \nDolsy Smith, The George Washington University  \nAbstract  \nThis piece situates the project of critique in relation to the idea of library instruction as labor and the library as an organization. If the laborer can come to reflect on the conditions of their labor, thereby achieving a measure of autonomy even at the grindstone, it's also possible that the critical subject can be induced or coerced to labor on behalf of the organization. In the attenuation of organized forms of solidarity at the workplace, the organizations that employ us demand more and more of their workers' time, energy, and commitment. In this piece, I surface these tensions in the interest of a different kind of instruction: studying to learn from fugitive forms of solidarity that, as Fred Moten and Stefano Harney suggest, endure because of their refusal to be organized, keeping the commons alive around and beyond the frame in which the subject studies their own reflection.  \nKeywords: reflection, Critical Library Instruction  \nSpecial issue edited by Maria T. Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier  \nSmith, D. (2020) . Iterable ciphers for insurrection. Communications in Information Literacy, 14(1), 27–45.  \nIterable Ciphers for Insurrection  \n[W]e need to move beyond critique. For the simple reason that, due to its Kantian origins, critique cannot but restate (usually by the back door of redress) the premises of modern thought. How? Because the juridical and ethical figuring of the subject (respectively authority and liberty), both in thought and institutions (procedures, premises, and mechanisms), undermine the very critical and emancipatory project they are requested to ground.  \n-Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Hacking the Subject”  \n[T]he university is fucked up. It’s fucked up over here. Why is it fucked up? Why is it that shit ain’t the way it should be here? Yeah, there’s some stuff here, but obviously there’s stuff in other places too. The point is: it’s fucked up here, how can we think about it in a way to help us organize ourselves to make it better here?  \n-Fred Moten from“The General Antagonism: An Interview with Stevphen Shukaitis” in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study  \nTFW 1 you realize that it’s been ten years since you published an essay about feeling “stuck”in your efforts to bring critical perspectives to your work in library instruction. Ten years, and the feeling persists, of course. Tense years in the friction between the prerogatives of capital and the imperative of critique (or should we say the imperatives of capital and the prerogative of critique?). In that kairotic time of which Emily Drabinski (2017) writes, noting how the present demands that we divide our labor, our loyalties, and our care as library professionals between “compliance” and “critical engagement” (p. 78) . For teaching, as a labor of fidelity and care putting selves in touch across intervals where selfhood comes into play as a t","cbCaif5koTMUzjke","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif5koTMUzjke","pdf",183535,"English","# Abstract\n# Keywords\n# Critique and its limits\n## Critique restating the premises of modern thought\n# University, organization, and labor\n## Calls to organize and make it better\n# Stuckness and iterable labor","[{\"question\":\"How does the article define the relationship between critique and library instruction?\",\"answer\":\"It situates critique in relation to library instruction as labor and the library as an organization. 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