Marina Vishmidt

Speculation as a Mode of Production

Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the role of speculation in philosophy, art and finance, Speculation as a Mode of Production is an essential, widescreen theorization of capital's drive to self-expansion, and an urgent corrective to the narrow and one-sided periodisations to which it is most commonly subjected.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9789004291379
• ISBN-10: 9004291377
• Artikelnr.: 53608165

Autorenporträt

Marina Vishmidt is a writer and editor. She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is the co-author of Reproducing Autonomy (with Kerstin Stakemeier) (Mute, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Speculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital
1 Introduction
2 Speculation as Method
3 How Does Art Speculate?
4 Is There a Speculative Mode of Production?
5 Chapter Outline
1 Speculation: The Subjectivity of Re-structuring and Re-structuring
Subjectivity
1 Speculation in the Negative
2 Speculative Subjects
3 Fetishism and the Production of Subjectivity
4 Speculation or Real Subsumption
5 To Human is Capital
6 Human Capital and Art
7 Speculation and Abstract Labour: An Abstract
8 Self-Appreciation?
9 From Self to Species-Being
10 Value Equals Zero
2 Topologies of Speculation: The Tenses of Art, Labour and Finance
1 &'Counterproductive' and Abstract Labour
2 Autonomy in Generalised Speculation
3 Speculation and Contingency
4 What is an &'Absolute Contingency'?
5 Futures and the Future
6 Art as Counterproductive Labour
7 Invisible Labour
8 Visible Finance
9 Conclusion
3 Aesthetic Speculations and Antagonisms
1 Is Art Working?
2 Real Subsumption
3 Negative Composition
4 The Specialist of Non-Specialism
5 Negate Here
6 The Critique of the Power of Judgement and the Critique of the Powers of
Art: Kantian Interlude
4 Whatever Indicator: Indeterminacy, Judgement, and Putting the Speculative
to Work
1 Introduction
2 The Name of Art
3 To Be Done with the Judgement of Art
4 Counter-Artistic Production
5 Whatever Indicator
6 Reproductive Potentiality
7 Subhuman Capital
8 Artist Placement Group - Incidental Person, or Negation of the Artist?
9 Excursus on Use-Value
10 Artistic Communism - A Speculative Gesture
11 Art - Departure or Destination?
Conclusion: Whither Speculation?
1 One More Time If You Would Be Useless
2 Trajectories of the Generic
3 Prognostic Coda