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ECONOMISING CULTURE: On The (Digital) Culture Industry
Edited by Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa & Anya Lewin
Published by Autonomedia
CC 2004 (all texts released under a Creative Commons License)
ISBN 1-57027-168-2
Paper perfectbound, 210x148 mm
256 pages
Outline:
The interaction between culture and economy was famously explored by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer by the term 'Kulturindustrie' (The Culture Industry) to describe the production of mass culture and power relations between capitalist producers and mass consumers. Their account is a bleak one, but one that appears to hold continuing relevance, despite being written in 1944. Today, the pervasiveness of network technologies has contributed to the further erosion of the rigid boundaries between high art, mass culture and the economy, resulting in new kinds of cultural production charged with contradictions. On the one hand, the culture industry appears to allow for resistant strategies using digital technologies, but on the other it operates in the service of capital in ever more complex ways. This publication, the first in the series, uses the concept of the culture industry as a point of departure, and tests its currency under new conditions.
Contents:
Introduction to The (Digital) Culture Industry
Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa & Anya Lewin
The Flexible Personality: For a New Cultural Critique
Brian Holmes
Heritage
The Yes Men
The Mood of Networking Culture
Jeremy Valentine
An Economy of Love
Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings
Globalica: Communism, Culture and the Commodity
Esther Leslie
Re-code.com
Carbon Defense League & Conglomco Media Conglomeration
Trip the Loop, Make your Switch, Consume the Net
Julian Priest & James Stevens
Society in Ad-hoc Mode: Decentralised, Self-Organising, Mobile
Armin Medosch
Sightings
Raqs Media Collective
Flexible Colonisation
Marina Grzinic
Lowtech Music For Hightech People
Gameboyzz Orchestra
Homework: The Extension of The Culture Industry
Mirko Tobias Schäfer
The President@whitehouse.gov Shooter
Margarete Jahrmann
On Warfare and Representation
Jordan Crandall
The Spectacle: Global and Particular
Adam J. Chmielewski
Notes on Contributors
Produced in association with i-DAT, University of Plymouth.