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Videophilosophy - The Perception of Time in Post-Fordism (Paperback)
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Videophilosophy - The Perception of Time in Post-Fordism (Paperback)
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international
acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular
his influential concept of immaterial labor and his perceptive
writings on debt. In Videophilosophy, he reveals the underpinnings
of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics and politics of mass
media. First written in French and published in Italian and later
revised but never published in full, this book discloses the
conceptual groundwork of Lazzarato's thought as a whole for a time
when his writings have become increasingly influential. Drawing on
Bergson, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Deleuze and Guattari, and the film
theory and practice of Dziga Vertov, Lazzarato constructs a new
philosophy of media that ties political economy to the politics of
aesthetics. Through his concept of "machines that crystallize
time," he argues that the proliferation of digital technologies
over the past half-century marks the transition to a new mode of
capitalist production characterized by unprecedented forms of
subjection. This new era of the commodification of the self,
Lazzarato declares, demands novel types of political action that
challenge the commercialization and exploitation of time. This
crucial text by an essential contemporary thinker offers vital new
perspectives on aesthetics, politics, and media and critical
theory.
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