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Speculation as a mode of production : forms of value subjectivity in art and capital / Marina Vishmidt.

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"In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Aesthetics and the Financialisation of the Subject, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the 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 theorization 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 9781642590517
ISBN: 1642590517
Physical Description: xi, 254 pages ; cm
Publisher: Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2019.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	First published in 2018 by Brill Academic Publishers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : speculation as a mode of production in art and capital -- Speculation : the subjectivity of re-structuring and re-structuring subjectivity -- Topologies of speculation : the tenses of art, labour and finance -- Aesthetic speculations and antagonisms -- Whatever indicator : indeterminacy, judgement, and putting the speculative to work -- Conclusion : whither speculation?