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Don't Network

The Avant Garde After Networks

ISBN-13: 9781570273391

Author(s): Marc James Leger

Subjects: JPW

Publisher: Minor Compositions

Publisher Imprint: Minor Compositions

Publication Date: 20-12-2018

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£22.00
Don't Network

About the book

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. 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, analysing the ways vanguard politics and avant-garde aesthetics can challenge the ideologies of the network society.