From printing to streaming cultural production under capitalism / Michael Chanan.
| Author/creator | Chanan, Michael |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; Las Vegas, NV : Pluto Press, 2022. |
| Description | xix, 240 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Marxism and culture Marxism and culture. ^A690501 |
| Abstract | For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however, capital is hostile to the arts because it cannot fully control the process of creativity. But while he saw the arts as marginal to capital accumulation, that was before the birth of the mass media. Engaging with the major issues in Marxist theory around art and capitalism, From Printing to Streaming traces how the logic of cultural capitalism evolved from the print age to digital times, tracking the development of printing, photography, sound recording, newsprint, advertising, film and broadcasting, exploring the peculiarities of each as commodities, and their recent transformation by digital technology, where everything melts into computer code. Showing how these developments have had profound implications for both cultural creation and consumption, Chanan offers a radical and comprehensive analysis of the commodification of artistic creation and the struggle to realise its potential in the digital age. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781786808028 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023275718 |
| ISBN | 0745340954 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780745340951 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0745340962 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780745340968 (paperback) |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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