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Stefano Harney: Abolition and the General Intellect
Submitted by eyal weizman on Mon, 2008-05-12 11:11.I would like start this essay with two questions. What is the form of capitalist production today? Who is the enemy of that form? Here are my answers. The form of capitalist production today is governance. The enemy of this form is the prisoner.
Those who understand governance as some kind of contemporary extension of governmentality do not, I believe, understand governance.
Those who understand the prisoner as some kind of contemporary manifestation of homo sacer do not, I believe, understand the prisoner.
The prisoner is guilty. And governance knows only this.
Stefano Harney: Unfinished Business, The Cultural Commodity and its Labour Process
Submitted by eyal weizman on Mon, 2008-05-12 11:08.We argue that the problems of managing in the creative industries cannot be fully understood in the current and most common overviews of the industries. We review the two ways the industries are understood as social trends before suggesting that they are both insufficiently broad and encompassing. We then use the history of cultural studies, its origins and engagements, to extend the horizon of the creative industries and also to focus on where the work takes place in these industries.
