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020 $z9781786805096 (ePub ebook)
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100 1 $aBeech, Dave,$eauthor.
245 10 $aArt and postcapitalism :$baesthetic labour, automation and value production /$cDave Beech.
264 1 $aLondon :$bPluto Press,$c2019.
300 $aix, 148 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Postcapitalism, Critique and Art; 1. What is Postcapitalism?; 2. Art's Hostility to Capitalism; 3. Artists and the Politics of Work; 4. Avant-Gardism and the Meanings of Automation; 5. Laziness and the Technologies of Rest; Conclusion: Gratuity, Digitalisation and Value; Notes; Bibliography; Index
520 8 $aArtistic 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.
650 0 $aArt and society.
650 0 $aArt$xEconomic aspects.
650 0 $aCapitalism.
650 0 $aArts$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aWork$xPhilosophy.
650 7 $aArts$xPolitical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00817791
650 7 $aWork$xPhilosophy.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01180197
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