Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity
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Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity by Gerald Raunig
With the economy deindustrialized and the working class decentralized, a call for alternative horizons for resistance: the university and the art world.
What was once the factory is now the university. As deindustrialization spreads and the working class is decentralized, new means of social resistance and political activism need to be sought in what may be the last places where they are possible: the university and the art world. Gerald Raunig's new book analyzes the potential that cognitive and creative labor has in these two arenas to resist the new regimes of domination imposed by cognitive capitalism. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's concept of modulation as the market-driven imperative for the constant transformation and reinvention of subjectivity, in Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, Raunig charts alternative horizons for resistance.
Looking at recent social struggles including the university strikes in Europe, the Spanish Democracia real YA organization, the Arab revolts, and the Occupy movement, Raunig argues for a reassessment of the importance of cultural and knowledge production. The central role of the university, he asserts, is not as a factory of knowledge but as a place of creative disobedience.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781584351160 |
| ISBN 10 | 1584351160 |
| Title | Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity |
| Author | Gerald Raunig |
| Series | Factories Of Knowledge Industries Of Creativity |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Autonomedia |
| Year published | 2013-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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