<p>Black Dog presents the latest book in the `de-, dis-, ex-' series, edited by Marina Vishmidt and Melanie Gilligan. Comprising essays and interventions that range from the ethnographic to the parodic, Immaterial Labour explores the increasing conceptual and material convergence between the relations of production in culture and economy. Contributors from art and academic fields discuss the interpenetration of art practices that engage in research and exchange with the contemporary commerce in knowledge and affective products with its attendant labour market. The book uses historic paradigms of workers' movements, autonomous art initiatives as well as scientific knowledge prodcution as themes to discuss the viability and usefulness of `socially engaged' art practices. Through an unusual and inventive view, Immaterial Labour opens up a challenging debate about the role of art. An essential read for anyone interested in contemporary art as political practice.</p>

De, Dis, Ex

Arts & Photography

Marina Vishmidt

Melanie Gilligan

History & Criticism

Black Dog Pub Ltd

In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of Adorno's negative dialectic, her work pursues speculation through its contested terrains of philosophy, finance, and art, to arrive at the most detailed analysis that we now possess of the role of speculation in the shaping of subjectivity by value relations. Featuring detailed critical discussions of recent tendencies in the artistic representation of labour, and a brilliant reconstruction of the philosophical concept of the speculative from its origins in German Romanticism, Speculation as a Mode of Production is an essential, widescreen theorisation 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.

Speculation as a Mode of Production (Historical Materialism Book, 176)

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