Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

Gerald Raunig, Antonio Negri, Aileen Derieg

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English

Semiotext (E)
08 March 2013

Social & political philosophy; Society & Social Sciences; Central government policies

Series: Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

With the economy deindustrialized and the working class decentralized, a call for alternative horizons for resistance- the university and the art world.

What was once the factory is now the university. As deindustrialization spreads and the working class is decentralized, new means of social resistance and political activism need to be sought in what may be the last places where they are possible- the university and the art world. Gerald Raunig's new book analyzes the potential that cognitive and creative labor has in these two arenas to resist the new regimes of domination imposed by cognitive capitalism. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's concept of ""modulation"" as the market-driven imperative for the constant transformation and reinvention of subjectivity, in Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, Raunig charts alternative horizons for resistance.

Looking at recent social struggles including the university strikes in Europe, the Spanish

Democracia real YA! organization, the Arab revolts, and the Occupy movement, Raunig argues for a reassessment of the importance of cultural and knowledge production. The central role of the university, he asserts, is not as a factory of knowledge but as a place of creative disobedience.

By: Gerald Raunig
Afterword by: Antonio Negri
Translated by: Aileen Derieg
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 15
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9781584351160
ISBN 10: 1584351160
Series: Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 08 March 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist. He works at the Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich and the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies), Vienna. He is coeditor of the multilingual Web journal Transversal and of Kulturrisse, the Austrian journal for radical democratic cultural politics. He is the author of Art and Revolution and A Thousand Machines, both published by Semiotext(e). Antonio Negri is a philosopher, essay writer, and teacher. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy, he has taught political science for many years and has written numerous books on political philosophy, including Marx beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, Insurgencies, The Porcelain Workshop: For a New Grammar of Politics (Semiotext(e)), and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth.