[D66] Don’t Network

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Don’t Network. The Avant Garde after Networks Marc James Léger Explores
the nature of avant garde art within contemporary capitalism 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. “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 “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 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.
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