Re: [AUT] Marazzi talk

[martin hardie <auskadi@xxxxxxxxx>]

the reference I cited regarding the AT&T strikes has an interesting
analysis in the changes int he nature of fincancing of companies which
might be relevant as background to this discussion:
Lazonick: Evolution of the New Economy Business Model. 1. What Is New
About the "New Economy"? ... and New Economy business models in the
ICT industries. ...
http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/annmeet/lazonick.pdf
I found this quite a useful pice in outlining from a 'business
history' stance quite a few changes brought about in the post
fordist/immaterial economy.
best to all Martin
ps I made this after the posting lat week on the civilblog:
http://auskadi.civiblog.org/blog

On 5/31/05, sos01at@xxxxxxxxxx <sos01at@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here is the abstract (culled & translated from his Capitale & Linguaggio,
> DeriveApprodi, 2002)
> 
> Thursday 2nd June
> 4.30-6.00pm, Room 137, Main Building
> Goldsmiths College
> (nearest Tube stops: New Cross / New Cross Gate)
> 
> FINANCE, ATTENTION AND AFFECT
> 
> With Christian Marazzi, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera
> Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
> 
> Traditionally, there has been a strong temptation to describe stock market
> phenomena, and the extreme volatility they display, as the expression of
> that autonomization of finance capital from real economic processes which
> is so typical of the terminal phase of the business cycle in the 19th and
> 20th centuries. Marazzi will argue that the distinction between the real
> economy, in which material and immaterial commodities are produced and
> sold, and monetary-finance economy, in which the speculative dimension
> dominates the choices of investors, must be entirely rethought in the new,
> postfordist economy. The fundamental thesis is that in the new economy
> language and communication structurally and contemporaneously traverse both
> the sphere of the production and distribution of commodities and services
> and the financial sphere. It is for this particular reason that the
> modifications in the world of work and the modifications in financial
> markets must be seen as two faces of the same coin.
> 
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