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Art and Postcapitalism - Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production (Hardcover)
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Art and Postcapitalism - Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production (Hardcover)
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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.
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