[lbo-talk] The Nietzsche Economy - Diedrich Diederichsen

Charles Turner vze26m98 at optonline.net
Sat Sep 24 06:59:31 PDT 2011


On Sep 24, 2011, at 1:27 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> What makes an economy "Nitzchean"?

Given the German background of the author and the intended audience of art curators, I guess that this is an allusion to the work of Peter Behrens for AEG at the turn of the 20th century. Behrens' commission to provide a "total" design presence for AEG came from Emil Rathenau, who was deeply inspired by Nietzsche:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_behrens> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEG>

(Although you'd have to go here: <http://www.amazon.com/Industriekultur-Peter-Behrens-AEG-1907-1914/dp/0262021951/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316872531&sr=8-1> to get any of the Nietzsche stuff.)

So in the context of Diederichsen's essay, perhaps it implies a transfer of a Nietzschean worldview from the "Fordist" to "Post-fordist" economy?

HTH, Charles



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