JOY FOREVER: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY
Edited by Michał Kozłowski, Agnieszka Kurant, Janek Sowa, Krystian
Szadkowski, Kuba Szreder
Joy Forever refers to the false promise of a common happiness,
constantly played out by the proponents of the creative class and
creative economy – the very promise that since Romanticism has been
ascribed to art itself, a vow which remains unfulfilled. The aim of
Free/Slow University’s publication is to scrutinize the false promises
of distributed creativity as an ideology of cognitive capitalism. The
authors devote themselves to critical examination of the structural
links between art, creativity, labour and the creation of value under
contemporary relations of production. Some of them do not stop at a
critical diagnosis but go further, reflecting upon potential
alternatives to the status quo.
The book covers more than the issues of a narrowly understood art world,
despite the fact that it pays a lot of attention to them. Art is
conceived here as a social lab, where innovative ways of organizing of
labour, socializing both for labour and through labour, as well as
different types of production, speculation, generation and accumulation
and appropriation of value are experimented with and tested.
Authors: Hans Abbing, Joanna Bednarek, Luc Boltanski, Isabelle Bruno,
Neil Cummings, Diedrich Diederichsen, Freee Art Collective, Isabelle
Graw, Alex Neumann, Precarious Workers Brigade, John Roberts, Gigi
Roggero, Martha Rosler, Stevphen Shukaitis, Massimiliano Tomba, Marina
Vishmidt.
Electronic version freely accessible: http://mayflybooks.org/?page_id=107
Publishers: Free/Slow University of Warsaw (www.wuw-warsaw.pl), MayFly
Books (www.mayflybooks.org) and Bęc Zmiana Foundation (www.funbec.pl)
Print version is available from MayFly Books and other distributors.
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