Active refusal of systems that privatize, monopolize, or restrict access to knowledge and learning resources.
Just as historical enclosure movements fenced common lands, institutional and patriarchal systems enclose knowledge—restricting women from universities, forbidding certain books, limiting who may study theology or science. Sor Juana's life was an act of intellectual trespassing: she accessed resources, pursued subjects, and claimed authority that enclosure denied her. Resisting intellectual enclosure means opposing monopolies on learning, credentialing, and expertise. For libertarian justice, it challenges licensing regimes, academic gatekeeping, and proprietary control of information that should be common intellectual heritage. It recognizes that some forms of knowledge—mathematics, philosophy, ethical reasoning—are not rightfully enclosed by any institution. Resistance to enclosure supports open access, decentralized learning, and the right to pursue knowledge without permission. This frames libertarian justice not only as individual freedom but as opposition to artificial scarcity and monopolistic control of the intellectual commons.
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