Art and postcapitalism : aesthetic labour, automation and value production / Dave Beech.
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TextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2019Description: 160 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745339245 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Arts -- Political aspects | Work -- Philosophy | Crafts | CraftsDDC classification: 306.4'7 Summary: 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.
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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.
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