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Fictional Labor - Ethics and Cultural Production in the Digital Economy (Hardcover)
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Fictional Labor - Ethics and Cultural Production in the Digital Economy (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 86
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This book advocates for the ethically formative labor that fiction
accomplishes. As a force of production, the fictional labor of
literature and the visual arts shapes the formation of collective
meaning in an era marked by the negligence of social, financial,
and environmental responsibility. As neoliberalism's hegemony since
the 1980s has intensified through the proliferation of digital
technologies in the 21st century, considering works of creative art
as an ethically productive force is a necessary complement to
political and economic critiques. The book invites readers to
rethink how mutations in the production, circulation, and
consumption of literary and visual materials are implicated in the
commodification of information and attention for private gain. The
link can have a positive effect that transforms the social relation
from a capitalist ethos that expends life for profit to an
alterity-driven ethos that defends life. But remedying the paucity
of moral sentiments of social existence requires fictional labor to
generate ethical sensibilities, cares, desires, and wills. The
book's close analyses demonstrate the aesthetic and formal aspects
of literary and visual art that mediate between social relations to
yield a dependence alterity, including the otherness of a
precarious present, a menacing future beyond economic mastery, and
an environment enmeshed with living beings and things.
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