e-flux journal: Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art

'It is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. Furthermore, when the flexibility, certainty and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are revealed as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more interesting? [...]' (Back cover)

With brief biography of contributors.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Sternberg Press (Berlin, Germany)

editor

Julieta ARANDA,

Anton VIDOKLE,

Brian Kuan WOOD

Location code

REF.ARJ2

Language

English

Keyword

art theory, art criticism

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

212

ISBN / ISSN

9781934105313

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Julieta ARANDA, Brian Kuan WOOD, Anton VIDOKLE

People of Intensity, People of Power: The Nietzsche Economy - Diedrich DIEDERICHSEN

Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Postdemocracy - Hito STEYERL

Irene ist Viele! Or What We Call 'Productive' Forces - Marion VON OSTEN

The Good of Work - Liam GILLICK

Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Death of Death - Lars Bang LARSEN

Towards the Space of the General: On Labor Beyond Materiality and Immateriality - Keti CHUKHROV

Hidden Labor and the Delight of Otherness: Design and Post-Capitalist Politics - Tom HOLERT

Cognitarian Subjectivation - Franco BERARDI

Desire for/within Economic Transformation - Antke ENGEL

Fragments Toward an Understanding of a Week that Changed Everything... - Precarious Workers Brigade

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e-flux journal: Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art

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Art Writing