Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art

by Julieta Aranda (Editor), Brian Kuan Wood (Editor), Anton Vidokle (Editor)

It is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. Furthermore, when the flexibility, certainty and freedom promised by being part of a critical "outside" are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit "inside" of something far more compelling? This latest issue of e-flux journal addresses these important (though somewhat hostile) questions in the in-your-face style the journal is known for. Cover design by Liam Gillick.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Art, Politics

216 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2011

About the author

Julieta Aranda is a conceptual artist that lives and works in Berlin and New York City.[1] She received a BFA in filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts (2001) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006), both in New York. Her explorations span installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making

Reviews

[Danae · Rating 2 out of 5]

Salvo el texto de Hito Steyerl y un par de cositas chicas medio interesantes, bien fome este libro.