00000nmm a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685523046124785597 Buklod 20260417132305.0 cr ||||||||||| 260417s2019 xxk o d eng|d 9781786805089 (eBook) FA-158eb EBSCO International, Inc. P6,600.00 DCFA rda eng DMLUC N 72 S6 B44 2019eb Beech, Dave author. Art and postcapitalism aesthetic labour, automation and value production Dave Beech. London Pluto Press 2019. 1 online resource text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'non alienated 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 non capitalist production. Reassessing the contemporary politics of work by revisiting debates about art, technology and in the nineteenth and twentieth century, Dave Beech challenges the aesthetics of labour in John Ruskin, William Morris and Oscar Wilde with a value theory of the supersession of capitalism that sheds light on the anti-work theory by Silvia Federici, Andre Gorz, Kathi Weeks and Maurizio Lazzarato, as well as the technological Cockayne of Srnicek and Williams and Paul Mason. Formulating a critique of contemporary postcapitalism, and developing a new understanding of art and labour within the political project of the supersession of value production, this book is essential for activists, scholars and anyone interested in the real and imagined escape routes from capitalism. Art and society. Capitalism. Full text access requires UP Webmail login http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2274457 FO UPD DCFA N 72 S6 B44 2019eb Electronic Resource