This article utilises the new reading of Marx found in the work of Michael Heinrich to ana-lyse the creative industries. It considers the role played in the production of value by the labour that takes place in the sphere of …
Creative Industries, Value Theory and Michael Heinrich’s New Reading of Marx
The Esoteric Marx This second lecture picks up on some key points from the first lecture to explore the ‘esoteric’ Marx, a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. I therefore want to …
Abstract This paper critiques the purposes to which Marx’s Fragment on Machines is put in postoperaist thought. I suggest postoperaist readings wield influence on contemporary left thinking, via postcapitalism, accelerationism and ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’. Changes in labour lead proponents …