In these pages a number of essays and projects take their point of departure in these specific models of (re)production and (re)distribution, and look at how production is changing in the Western countries, mainly from industrial production to immaterial labor, and in the East from state capitalism to a deregulated (post)industrialism with a new commodification and codification of the labor force, and thus of all social as well as economical relations. What are “new” economies, and what kinds of technologies of the self are they producing, and indeed, enforcing? Thus, in these pages you will find efforts to review the situation, asking what is to be done in this predicament of expansive global capitalism, corporatization of culture, the specularization of politics, and the marginalization, even criminalization, of the critical left.
Discussions range from the spectral form of value, (self)precarization, deregulation and the privatization of the welfare state to the development of alternative economies and the establishment of various modes of critique and resistance, cartography and historiography, inclination and inquiry, and the politicization of subject positions.
Inhalt
Simon Sheikh: Introduction 13
Brian Holmes: Invisible states: Europe in the age of capital failure 29
Oleg Kireev: Consumerist Interfaces 59
Stephan Geene: Meaningful, meaningless and free of all meaning: Subjects in spent time 75
Isabell Lorey: Governmentality and self-precaization: On the normalization of cultural producers 117
Katja Diefenbach: The spectral form of value: Ghost-things and relations of forces 141
Gerald Raunig: A few fragments on machines 165
Trude Iversen: Autonomy and the administration of aesthetics 193
Fia-Stina Sandlund: My business with the bikini king 200
Elin Wirkström: Better for a... / Does a believe that b... 214
Natasche Sadr Haghighian: ...Deeply _____ to the notion 226
Olafur Gislason: Dancing structural changes 236
Michael Blum: Wandering Marxwards / Old boys and toys 242
Jason Simon: Vera 250
Knut Åsdam: Blissed 254
Regina Dold, Katia Foquet, Florian Gass, Stephan Geene, Mariette Kesting: After Effects 268
Katya Sander: What is capitalism? 282
Ashley Hunt: A world map: In which we see... 296
Oliver Ressler: Alternative economics, alternative... 310
Copenhagen Free University: Taking power, refusing... 318
Maria Eichhorn: Maria Eichhorn Public LTD. Co. 324
Andrea Creutz: The 'hidden' flow 334
Susan Kelly & Stephen Morton: What is to be done? 340
Chto Delat? A platform for engaged creativity 352
Biographies 360
