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All Shall Be Unicorns. About Commons, Aesthetics and Time
/0 CommentsWe share this article by Marina Vishmidt, which investigates “commonist aesthetics”. (commonist – not communist!) Marina Vishmidt With this investigation into the relationship between commoning and aesthetics via the dimension of time, Marina Vishmidt contributes to the theme of Commonist Aesthetics. Vishmidt views temporality as a framing condition for thinking “commons” as a practical […]
Artistic labor and the production of value. An attempt for a Marxist interpretation
/0 CommentsDr. José María Durán will partake in the panel debate on Post Capitalistic Values at our seminar Thursday 15 March. He is a lecturer of European cultural studies at the HfM Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and author of a number of articles on the subject of the political economy of art and has edited in Spanish […]
Have we really, though?
/0 CommentsPaul Mason boldly claims that the end of capitalism has begun, and that we’ve already entered a post capitalistic era. Quite a few disagree. Amongst them Jacob Hjortsberg, a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, who’s written quite a biting review of Mason’s book. Check out his critique below, previously published at Counterpunch. Have […]