Perhaps of interest for a lazy Sunday… me babbling on about my continued
efforts to merge together autonomous class composition analysis with art
historical / aesthetic considerations… cheers, stevphen
The Composition of Movements to Come
Aesthetics and Cultural Labor after the Avant-Garde
STEVPHEN SHUKAITIS, ROWMAN AND LITTLEFIELD 2016
October 5, 2016 Dave O'Brien
http://newbooksnetwork.com/stevphen-shukaitis-the-composition-of-movements-to-come-aesthetics-and-cultural-labor-after-the-avant-garde-rowman-and-littlefield-2016/
How is the notion of the avant-garde in art relevant today? What can
contemporary social movements learn from the Situationists? What is the
meaning of artistic value to forms of resistance? These, and many other,
questions associated with the role of art in modern society are at the
heart of The Composition of Movements to Come (Rowman and Littlefield,
2016). Stevphen Shukaitis, a senior lecturer in work and organisation at
the University of Essex, approaches these issues from an Autonomist
Marxist perspective, thinking through a diverse range of issues, for
example cultural labour, and practices, for example the art strike. The
book also uses a range of artistic examples, including a detailed
engagement with Neue Slowenische Kunst to think through the composition
of movements to come. The podcast discusses a forthcoming exhibition of
the work of Gee Vaucher at Firstsite in Essex, UK. The book will be of
interest to critical theorists, as well as scholars from art, politics
and social movement studies.
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Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info
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