Book Announcement: Capital (it fails us now)

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        Simon Sheikh (Ed.) · oe~
Capital (it fails us now)
critical readers in visual culture #6
2006 · 368 p. · english · 16 ? · ISBN 3-933557-69-0


CAPITAL (IT FAILS US NOW) / the reader:
What does it mean to live under certain historical
conditions, such as the current hegemony of the
capitalist mode of production?
What does it mean in terms of economic and social
relations, in terms of political space and
imagination?
How does capitalism affect our nervous systems,
subjectivities and desires?
These are some of the questions we have tried to pose,
if not answer, in the exhibitions ? held between Oct 7
and Nov 6, 2005 at UKS in Oslo, Norway and from Jan 7
to Feb 19, 2006, at Kunstihoone, Estonia ? and in the
present book project, Capital (It Fails Us Now).
In these pages a number of essays and projects take
their point of departure in these specific models of
(re)production and (re)distribution, and look at how
production is changing in the Western countries,
mainly from industrial production to immaterial labor,
and in the East from state capitalism to a deregulated
(post)industrialism with a new commodification and
codification of the labor force, and thus of all
social as well as economical relations. What are ?new?
economies, and what kinds of technologies of the self
are they producing, and indeed, enforcing? Thus, in
these pages you will find efforts to review the
situation, asking what is to be done in this
predicament of expansive global capitalism,
corporatization of culture, the specularization of
politics, and the marginalization, even
criminalization, of the critical left.
Discussions range from the spectral form of value,
(self)precarization, deregulation and the
privatization of the welfare state to the development
of alternative economies and the establishment of
various modes of critique and resistance, cartography
and historiography, inclination and inquiry, and the
politicization of subject positions.

CAPITAL (it fails us now) contains texts and project
by:
Simon Sheikh
Brian Holmes
Oleg Kireev
Stephan Geene
Isabell Lorey
Katja Diefenbach
Gerald Raunig
Trude Iversen
Fia-Stina Sandlund
Elin Wikström
natascha sadr haghigHian
Olafur Gislason
Michael Blum
Jason Simon
Knut Åsdam
dold, foquet, gass, geene, kesting
katya sander
Ashley Hunt
oliver ressler
Copenhagen Free University
Maria Eichhorn
Andrea Creutz
Susan kelly & stephen morton
chto delat?

OE ? about the series:
oe is a series of critical readers into contemporary
visual cultures; their emergences, contingencies and
possibilities. The series is edited by Katya Sander
and Simon Sheikh, artist and theorist. We are
committed to theory, but not to discipline, and every
reader thus revolves around a specific -notion or
event, seen and discussed from various vantage points
or positions. Through an analysis of visual cultures ?
art, film, tv, the net, the street and so on ?
different regimes of visuality can be located. The
circulation, production, reproduction and
interpretation of images is seen as crucial to an
understanding of contemporary politics, not just of
representation, but also of the imaginary. Analysis is
therefore not only to be understood as reflective, but
also as active or activating. It is proposition(s).





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