| Don't Network: The Avant Garde After Networks Contributor(s): Léger, Marc James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1570273391 ISBN-13: 9781570273391 Publisher: Minor Compositions OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Social Science | Privacy & Surveillance (see Also Political Science - Privacy & Surveillance - Political Science | Privacy & Surveillance (see Also Social Science - Privacy & Surveillance) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Leger, Marc James: - "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." |