JULIETA ARANDA, ANTON VIDOKLE, BRIAN KUAN WOOD (eds.)e-flux journal
ARE YOU WORKING TOO MUCH?
Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
Sternberg Press, june 2011
With essays by Franco Berardi Bifo, Keti Chukhrov, Diedrich Diederichsen, Antke Engel, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert, Lars Bang Larsen, Marion von Osten, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, and Hito Steyerl
Let’s be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. Furthermore, when the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more compelling?
Design by Jeff Ramsey, cover design by Liam Gillick
Contents
Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood, Editors’ Note
Diedrich Diederichsen, People of Intensity, People of Power: The Nietzsche Economy Hito Steyerl, Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Postdemocracy
Marion von Osten, Irene ist Viele! Or What We Call “Productive” Forces
Liam Gillick, The Good of Work
Lars Bang Larsen, Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Death of Death
Keti Chukhrov, Towards the Space of the General: On Labor Beyond Materiality and Immateriality
Tom Holert, Hidden Labor and the Delight of Otherness: Design and Post-Capitalist Politics
Franco Berardi Bifo, Cognitarian Subjectivation
Antke Engel, Desire for/within Economic Transformation
Precarious Workers Brigade, Fragments Toward an Understanding of a Week that Changed Everything…
Irit Rogoff, FREE
