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There is something rotten about network society. Although the information economy promises to create new forms of wealth and social cooperation, the real subsumption of labour under post-Fordism has instead produced a social factory of precarious labour and cybernetic surveillance. In this context people have turned to networks as an ersatz solution to social problems. Networks become the agent of history, a technological determinism that in the best-case scenario leads to post-capitalism but at worst leads to new forms of exploitation and inequality. Don't Network proposes a third option to technocratic biocapitalism and social movement horizontalism, an analysis of the ways in which vanguard politics and avant-garde aesthetics can today challenge the ideologies of the network society. ** Don't Network: The Avant Garde After Networks 4 Contents 6 Introduction: Prosthetic Gods 3 One: On Networks and Vulgarity 42 Two: Against Cybernanthropy 80 Three: The Avant Garde as Cap

Author

Marc James Léger

Publisher

Minor Compositions

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570273391