From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production Under Capitalism

by Michael Chanan

A radical and comprehensive analysis of the commodification of artistic creation and the struggle to realize its potential in the digital age. For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labor. As Karl Marx saw it, however, capital is hostile to the arts because it cannot fully control the process of creativity. But while he saw the arts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745340962
• ISBN13: 9780745340968
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"