Surplus-Knowledge

„Knowledge is not a bulk of propositions or informative statements, but an activity inseparable from the knowing subject – with the knowing subject being not the mere, abstract „individual” but „social humanity.” Knowledge is the socio-historically specific human activity of „appropriating” nature; it is realized/actualized at the line of contact between human and social nature; it is the metabolic exchange between humans and nature that amounts to socializing nature and naturalizing humans.”