Art and Postcapitalism (eBook)

Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production

Dave Beech (Autor)

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2019
160 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-509-6 (ISBN)

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Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of 'fully automated luxury communism' have seen art topple from its privileged place within the left's political imaginary as the artist has been reconceived as a prototype of the precarious 24/7 worker.Art and Postcapitalism argues that art remains essential for thinking about the intersection of labour, capitalism and postcapitalism not insofar as it merges work and pleasure but as an example of noncapitalist production. Reassessing the contemporary politics of work by revisiting debates about art, technology and in the nineteenth and twentieth century, Dave Beech challenges the aesthetics of labour in John Ruskin, William Morris and Oscar Wilde with a value theory of the supersession of capitalism that sheds light on the anti-work theory by Silvia Federici, Andre Gorz, Kathi Weeks and Maurizio Lazzarato, as well as the technological Cockayne of Srnicek and Williams and Paul Mason.Formulating a critique of contemporary postcapitalism, and developing a new understanding of art and labour within the political project of the supersession of value production, this book is essential for activists, scholars and anyone interested in the real and imagined escape routes from capitalism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: abolition of work • aesthetics of work • André Gorz • Antonio Negri • arts and crafts • Cockayne • Conceptual Art • conceptualism • Constructivism • Dada • David Harvey • feminism in art • feminist politics of work • Fully Automated Luxury Communism • Futurism • guild system • idleness • Karl Marx • Labour • Left Accelerationism • Nick Srnicek • Postcapitalism • Romantic anticapitalism • silvia federici • technological postcapitalism • Théorie Communiste • utopian socialism • Value theory • Walter Benjamin
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-509-X / 178680509X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-509-6 / 9781786805096