capitalBerlin: b_books 2006Simon Sheikh (Ed.)
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.
This publication appeared in the context of the exhibition CAPITAL (it fails us now) held between Oct 7 and Nov 6, 2005 at UKS in Oslo,
Norway and from Jan 7 to Feb 19, 2006, at Kunstihoone, Estonia |