As western capitalism outlives any sense of social development or progress, culture takes on an increasingly gothic hue. The ruins of our industrial heyday are illuminated by digital billboards. The cyber-utopianism of the early Internet has waned, exposing Silicon Valley's anti-democratic ideologies and economies. As a result, far-right governments and fascist movements replace our meagre democracies. Looking around there are no saviours. Politics is moribund, while artists, once the dreamers of the modernist avant-garde, have become institutionalized and weak. Our revolutionary dreams are in tatters. Gothic Capitalism argues that artists can salvage art's spiritual and social roots by reassociating our art with working-class communities, class struggle, and gothic capitalism's everyday contradictions.
""Turl's ideas are an incitement, a reckoning - and perhaps even a way forward.""
- Holly Lewis, author of The Politics of Everybody
""A vital critique of the extractive machinery of the contemporary art world... this is not just a diagnosis - it's a call to arms.
- Anupam Roy, artist
""At once a protest and a clearing of the path forward... a tour de force of Marxist art history.""
- Jyotsna Kapur, author of The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India
""Summons avant-garde artists to break free from a market-driven art world whose institutions permit only capitalist dreams and nightmares -- and to produce art that is truly for the proletariat and its revolution.""
- Joe Shapiro, author of The Illiberal Imagination
By:
Adam Turl Imprint: Revol Press Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 9mm
Weight: 150g ISBN:9789526545929 ISBN 10: 9526545923 Pages: 148 Publication Date:02 May 2025 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
