From Printing to Streaming : Cultural Production under Capitalism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Marxism and Culture Series .
- Marxism and Culture Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface -- 1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic -- Creativity in question -- Marx's take on art -- The price of authorship -- 2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production -- The concrete nature of aesthetic labour -- Instruments and technology -- Photography -- Mass media and advertising -- 3. Cultural Commodification -- Gramophone -- Cinema -- Radio -- Television -- 4. Countercurrents -- Film culture -- Recording culture -- Countercultures -- 5. From Analog to Digital -- The digital arrives by stages -- Digital citizenship -- Precarious labour -- 6. Creativity Reconsidered -- Immaterial labour -- Bullshit jobs -- Speaking out -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Explores the impact of digital technologies on the logic of cultural capitalism.