Reposting this bloated commentary on recent art market trends by a pungently named French art writer.
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 31 December, 2007 - 15:46
Mute Events
THREE TALKS BY LOREN GOLDNER
London, Jan 19th, 21st and 22nd, 2008
New York-based Marxist Loren Goldner is giving a series of talks in London this month, hosted by Mute magazine [http://metamute.org]
subject: Credit | Debt | Events | Fictitious Capital | Finance & Trade | Financial Crisis | History | Literature
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Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 19 December, 2007 - 23:30
James Heartfield
Brief historicization (from www.spiked-online.com) of the latest inter-governmental eco-policy deal, looking into the way certain branches of capital established the 'Green' agenda long before its discovery by counter-culture and adoption by mainstream moralism. The ideology of Scarcity is perpetual, but it took on this distinct institutional form during the late 20th century Supply Side ascendancy. Incidentally the implicit contradiction between an 'eco-imperialist' drive to keep the 'underdeveloped' world that way (as a 'non-capitalist' source of loot) and industrial capitals' need to draw ever more labour-power into their orbit was explained by Rosa Luxemburg in 1913 in 'The Accumulation of Capital': "The conditions for the capitalization of surplus-value clash increasingly with the conditions for the renewal of the aggregate capital – a conflict which, incidentally, is merely a counterpart of the contradictions implied in the law of a declining profit rate".
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Science | Business | Climate Change | Conferences | Economics | Energy Resources | Environment | Events | Finance & Trade | Globalisation | History | Markets | Strategy
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Submitted by anthony on Monday, 19 November, 2007 - 13:38
Conservas
Several videos on housing struggles, sub-prime and free culture in Spain courtesy of CONSERVAS, Barcelona http://www.conservas.tk
The material has been shown and used all over Spain and now we are also organising shows or performance-presentations (see doc below), and at the same time we are opening a space here in Barcelona for exchange with others who are busy working on the same issues internationally. We are very open to colaborations and proposals. All the material exists in english, spanish, french and italian.
subject: Architecture | Art | Artivism | Debt | Finance & Trade | Gentrification | Socially Engaged | Squatting | Urbanism
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 9 October, 2007 - 14:27
Wildcat
The following is a report from Wildcat on the occupation of a bicycle factory in Nordhausen, Germany by its workers. It appears by kind permission of the excellent Prol-Position newsletter and will appear in the next issue (number 9): http://www.prol-position.net/
subject: Activism | AntiCapitalist | Europe | Finance & Trade | Labour Struggles | Occupations | Politics
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Submitted by Ben on Saturday, 6 October, 2007 - 18:36
James Heartfield
A magnificent destruction of creative industries hype by someone who has been on the money about this for 10 years. [It's so good, I can't help but write a micro-review.]
The productivist vein running through his analysis is problematic (who wants a truly productive capitalism instead of a decadent one?) but don't let it put you off, the basic economic arguments are rock solid. Briefly: industry contracts, 'creative' sector, parasitic on finance, in turn parasitic on the world's industrial producers, expands, but not for long, indeed it seems already to have reversed... exploitation overseas and at home are the secrets of the creative economy, but it is not the exploitation of creatives and the financial mediators whom they serve.
subject: Cultural Industries | Fictitious Capital | Finance & Trade
