The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular his influential concept of immaterial labor and his perceptive writings on debt. In Videophilosophy, he reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics and politics of mass media. First written in French and published in Italian and later revised but never published in full, this book discloses the conceptual groundwork of Lazzarato’s thought as a whole for a time when his writings have become increasingly influential.
Drawing on Bergson, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Deleuze and Guattari, and the film theory and practice of Dziga Vertov, Lazzarato constructs a new philosophy of media that ties political economy to the politics of aesthetics. Through his concept of “machines that crystallize time, ” he argues that the proliferation of digital technologies over the past half-century marks the transition to a new mode of capitalist production characterized by unprecedented forms of subjection. This new era of the commodification of the self, Lazzarato declares, demands novel types of political action that challenge the commercialization and exploitation of time. This crucial text by an essential contemporary thinker offers vital new perspectives on aesthetics, politics, and media and critical theory.
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Lazzarato’s Political Onto- aesthetics, by Jay Hetrick
Introduction
1. The War Machine of the Kino-Eye and the Kinoki Against the Spectacle
2. Bergson and Machines That Crystallize Time
3. Video, Flows, and Real Time
4. Bergson and Synthetic Images
5. Nietzsche and Technologies of Simulation
6. The Economy of Affective Forces
7. The Concept of Collective Perception
Afterword: Videophilosophy Now—an Interview with Maurizio Lazzarato
Notes
Index
Sobre el autor
Maurizio Lazzarato is a philosopher and sociologist. In the 1970s, he was involved with the Autonomia Operaia movement in Italy and was a founding member of the French journal Multitudes. His books in English include Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity (2014) and Governing by Debt (2015).Jay Hetrick is assistant professor of art history and theory at the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah.
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