Lecture on post-fordism on youtube. 

selected comments:

"Gielen's lecture illuminates a new contemporary economy: an economy of ideas. In this new era of perpetual mediation and prolific production, the value of "things" is changing. We live in a highly mimetic landscape and in this complex territory there is a new economy to navigate. the post-Fordian labor structure proposes freedoms and issues, Gielen explores those concisely. One wonders how far this economy of ideas will take us, and how sustainable it is in a world crowded with concepts"

"Gielen ended his talk by saying that the art scene promotes post-fordist labor and a new spirit of capitalism, essentially saying that the art world is a product of the system and ok with reproducing it. Hardt is wondering whether there exists within this art world a critique that proposes something new, in the tradition of the ancient scandalous cynics. I wonder which artists have work that is both "scandalous", and proposes alternatives, rather than just doing one or the other."


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