Don't Network: The Avant Garde After Networks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570273391)

There is something rotten about network society. Although the information economy promises to create new forms of wealth and social cooperation, the real subsumption of labour under post-Fordism has instead produced a social factory of precarious labour and cybernetic surveillance. In this context people have turned to networks as an ersatz solution to social problems. Networks become the agent of history, a technological determinism that in the best-case scenario leads to post-capitalism but at worst leads to new forms of exploitation and inequality. Don�t Network proposes a third option to technocratic biocapitalism and social movement horizontalism, an analysis of the ways in which vanguard politics and avant-garde aesthetics can today challenge the ideologies of the network society.

Author: Marc James L馮er
ISBN-10: 1570273391
ISBN-13: 9781570273391
Publisher: Minor Compositions
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2018
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d