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Economising Culture: On the (Digital) Culture Industry
- Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Format
- Artists' Books
- Details
- Softcover
- Size
- 15 × 21 × 2 cm
- Length
- 255
The interaction between culture and economy was famously explored by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer by the term ‘Kulturindustrie’ (The Culture Industry) to describe the production of mass culture and power relations between capitalist producers and mass consumers. Their account is a bleak one, but one that appears to hold continuing relevance, despite being written in 1944. Today, the pervasiveness of network technologies has contributed to the further erosion of the rigid boundaries between high art, mass culture and the economy, resulting in new kinds of cultural production charged with contradictions. On the one hand, the culture industry appears to allow for resistant strategies using digital technologies, but on the other it operates in the service of capital in ever more complex ways. This publication, the fi rst in the DATA browser series, uses the concept of the culture industry as a point of departure, and tests its currency under new conditions.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO ‘THE (DIGITAL) CULTURE INDUSTRY’ – Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa & Anya Lewin
THE FLEXIBLE PERSONALITY: FOR A NEW CULTURAL CRITIQUE – Brian Holmes
HERITAGE – The Yes Men
THE MOOD OF NETWORKING CULTURE – Jeremy Valentine
AN ECONOMY OF LOVE – Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings
GLOBALICA: COMMUNISM, CULTURE AND THE COMMODITY – Esther Leslie
Re-Code.com – Carbon Defense League & Conglomco Media Conglomeration
TRIP THE LOOP, MAKE YOUR SWITCH, CONSUME THE NET – Julian Priest & James Stevens
SOCIETY IN AD-HOC MODE: DECENTRALISED, SELF-ORGANISING, MOBILE – Armin Medosch
SIGHTING Raqs Media Collective
FLEXIBLE COLONISATION – Marina Grzinic
LOWTECH MUSIC FOR HIGHTECH PEOPLE – Gameboyzz Orchestra
HOMEWORK: THE EXTENSION OF THE CULTURE INDUSTRY – Mirko Tobias Schäfer
THE PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV SHOOTER – Margarete Jahrmann
ON WARFARE AND REPRESENTATION – Jordan Crandall
THE SPECTACLE: GLOBAL AND PARTICULAR – Adam J. Chmielewski
Eds. Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa & Anya Lewin
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