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The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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  • description: I was attracted to making art that lived on social media because it boasted an emancipation of the means of production and as a result, a totally uninhibited method of expression. However, after I started posting I realised the technologies which appeared as laboratory had their own inherent techniques of exercising control. In this video, I attempt to articulate what might be called 'a critique of the political economy of content creation' wherein I examine the base of social media as profit-generating for private and corporate owners, and how that shapes the super-structural panoptic algorithm which in turn maintains the base of mass production. Works cited in order of appearance: Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1932) Read here: https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf Michel Foucault: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of The Prison (1975) Read here: https://monoskop.org/images/4/43/Foucault_Michel_Discipline_and_Punish_The_Birth_of_the_Prison_1977_1995.pdf Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism, Is There No Alternative? (2009) Read here: https://files.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf Fredric Jameson: PostModernism; or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1989) Read here: https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Jameson_Postmodernism__cultural_logic_late_capitalism.pdf Karl Marx: The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (1932) Read here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto (1848) Read here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ Songs used in order of appearance: OTE - Disco Robots - Listen here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MF9eppHfqR8 Glenn Gould - Variation 1a1 Clav. - Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9AA7XLJz8 LCD Soundsystem - Us v Them (Live at Madison Square Garden) - Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENE-WnfS0v0 Gioachino Rossini - La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) : Overture - Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8kyXRNxoA
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