The Visual Experience Economy: What Kind of Economics? On the Topologies of Aesthetic Capitalism

Abstract

If there is to be such a thing as aesthetic capitalism, it may derive from processes that de facto relegates modern aesthetics as well as the critics of commodification, or present day representation, to the margins of knowledge based economies in a global domain, as variously indicated in approaches to the ”experience society,” ”a new spirit of capitalism,” ” the creative class,” ”global culture industry,” or ”the age of the global knowledge economy.” Seen from visual culture research, the visual today emerges as a core offering in a new and vastly multifarious spectrum of cultural aesthesis, from contemporary art in ever increasing global circuits touching all parts of the world, to pornography
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAesthetic Capitalism
EditorsPeter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente
Number of pages26
Place of PublicationLeiden/Boston
PublisherBrill
Publication date2014
Edition1
Pages63-88
Chapter4
ISBN (Print)9004235795
Publication statusPublished - 2014
SeriesSocial and Critical Theory
ISSN1572-459X

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