Dave Beech
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production
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Art and Postcapitalism explores how art remains essential for thinking about the intersection of labor, capitalism, and postcapitalism, challenging the aesthetics of labor in John Ruskin, William Morris, and Oscar Wilde with a value theory of the supersession of capitalism. It is essential for activists, scholars, and anyone interested in escaping capitalism.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 160 pages
\n Publication date: 20 October 2019
\n Publisher: Pluto Press
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Artistic labor has played a significant role in shaping Utopian Socialist and Marxist theories of attractive and nonalienated labor. However, the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of fully automated luxury communism have challenged art's privileged position within the left's political imaginary. The artist has been reconceived as a prototype of the precarious 24/7 worker, leading to a decline in art's significance within the left's political discourse.
In his book "Art and Postcapitalism," Dave Beech argues that art remains essential for thinking about the intersection of labor, capitalism, and postcapitalism. He challenges the aesthetics of labor in John Ruskin, William Morris, and Oscar Wilde with a value theory of the supersession of capitalism, which sheds light on the anti-work theory by Silvia Federici, Andre Gorz, Kathi Weeks, and Maurizio Lazzarato. Beech also examines the technological Cockayne of Srnicek and Williams and Paul Mason in the context of contemporary postcapitalism.
The book offers a critique of contemporary postcapitalism and develops a new understanding of art and labor within the political project of the supersession of value production. It is essential for activists, scholars, and anyone interested in exploring real and imagined escape routes from capitalism. By reassessing the contemporary politics of work and revisiting debates about art, technology, and labor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Beech provides a valuable contribution to the study of art and politics.
\n Weight: 212g\n
Dimension: 212 x 129 x 13 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780745339245\n \n
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