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Dimitrakaki, Angela & Kirsten Lloyd, eds. ECONOMY: Art, Production and the Subject in the Twenty-First Century. 2015. Liverpool University Press From the introduction: The proposition ‘speculation as a mode of production' is intended to set the terms of an inquiry into how art and of labour start to draw closer together in recent decades, as systems of value become more and more abstract. The relation between art and labour, as two contrary social forms - one predicated on uselessness and the other on a social use-value- undergoes a shift as exchange-value and the immanence of abstract value increasingly determine the conditions of production and experience for both. Here, we need to consider the relationship between an objective logic of speculation and the kinds of subjectivity it produces. The speculative subject, whether of aesthetics or labour-power, is key to understanding how the current model of social reproduction in capitalism – a mode that has been defined in terms of 'fictitious capital' or a 'double decoupling' between labour and capital (Simon 2011: 98) – sees a re-orientation of art and labour away from the discrete terrains set out for them by a previous mode of

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Liverpool University Press

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2015

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EN