On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Asad Haider <noswine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> H&N were primarily arguing that it really is a post-Fordist (I
>> can't stand
>
>> that term) world we live in? The economy's actually shifted to
>> emphasizing
>> language and communication? That interpretation makes it worse
>> than the
>> one
>> I couldn't take.
>>
>
> I don't know why. Of course, language and communication don't
> exhaust the
> economy--maybe we could call their economic functions
> ("consumerism"/branding/service work etc), following Raymond Williams,
> "emergent cultural formations." To me it certainly seems like a
> productive
> move to say that they don't represent something outside the economy,
> or a
> transcendence of the relation of exploitation, but are actually part
> of the
> production process and therefore sites of class struggle.
>
> Far better than business-crazy futurists who think that we have
> transcended
> work, and grouchy left-wing traditionalists who see new forms of
> cultural
> production as the decline of civilization.
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