Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production

by Dave Beech

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745339247
• ISBN13: 9780745339245
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"