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<p><b>Don’t Network. The Avant Garde after Networks</b><br>
Marc James Léger<br>
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Explores the nature of avant garde art within contemporary
capitalism<br>
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There is something rotten about network society. 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. In this context people have
turned to networks as an ersatz solution to social problems.
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, an analysis of the ways in which
vanguard politics and avant-garde aesthetics can today challenge
the ideologies of the network society. <br>
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“The Hacienda has been built, but as a network economy that turns
everyone into cannibalistic creatives that devour themselves and
the planet satisfying the insatiable demands of the market. Don’t
Network offers a lucid analysis of the new class war going on in
contemporary art and politics.” – Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of
After the Great Refusal<br>
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“Don’t Network presents a compelling argument that outlines and
undermines the hold of contemporary positivisms in politics,
aesthetics and the social sciences. The book develops Lacanian
schemas of incompleteness and Marxist dialectics to advance
negation, rather than connectivity, as the core of any potential
cultural avant garde, and as part of a manifest vision for radical
movements beyond diffuse and atomised moments of resistance.” –
Marina Vishmidt, author of Speculation as a Mode of Production<br>
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Bio: Marc James Léger is an independent scholar living in
Montreal. He is author of Brave New Avant Garde and Drive in
Cinema, and editor of two volumes of The Idea of the Avant Garde –
And What It Means Today.<br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=872">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=872</a><br>
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions
now. Official release to the book trade in December 2018. <br>
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Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port
Watson<br>
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.</p>
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