Tag Archives: art

Movement, Counter-paradigm chart (incomplete)

Posted on March 12, 2014 by edmundberger

  Movement Years Reacting to Counter-paradigm Characteristics Wartime/post-war liberalism mid-1930s-late 1950s “Authoritarian Personality” “Democratic Personality” Multiculturalism, openness, participation Post-war avant-garde 1942-1960 Liberal corporatism Active experience Spontaneity, participation, self-organization, Eastern philosophy New Left 1960-1972 Liberalism corporatism, Marxist-Leninism Authentic experience Direct democracy, … Continue reading →

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Communique from the Committee for the Liberation of Autonomous Amusement: on the foreclosure of possibility in everyday life

Posted on December 23, 2013 by edmundberger

 We were taught that the map is not the territory, and how the way we perceive the world does not necessarily reflect the way the world truly is. Nobody taught us that not only is there a discrepancy between the … Continue reading →

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Propositions of Diaspora

Posted on August 13, 2013 by edmundberger

1. Empire is an environment that encircles the globe. It exists above and within the multitude; it finds its expression in the formal governmental apparatuses (the nation-states), and the informal governmental apparatuses (the corporations and their technocratic vanguards), and beyond … Continue reading →

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Art Under Capital (Part II): Aesthetics Beyond Capital

Posted on May 28, 2013 by edmundberger

At the same seminar where Antonio Negri laid out his historical materialist analysis of art and its relationship to the capitalist modes of production, fellow Autonomist Bifo took to the podium with a very different take on the matters. Art, … Continue reading →

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Art Under Capital (Part I of II)

Posted on May 25, 2013 by edmundberger

…Capitalism grants art a perpetual privileged concession: that of pure creative activity – an isolated creativity which serves as an alibi for the alienation of all other activities (and which thus also makes it the most expensive and prestigious status … Continue reading →

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Baudrillard’s Art Conspiracy

Posted on May 23, 2013 by edmundberger

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about the role of art in both opposition and in compatibility with contemporary forms of economics and control (transnational post-Fordism), and I came across this article by Sylvere Lotringer about Jean … Continue reading →

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Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by edmundberger

The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics … Continue reading →

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