Vishmidt, Marina. 2019. Speculation in a Sense: Aesthetics and Real Abstraction. In: Gean Moreno, ed. In the Mind, but Not from There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art. London, New York: Verso. ISBN 9781788730693 [Book Section]

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In an era dominated by technologies of automation and virtualization, this essay will examine the financial logic of abstract risk as a key dynamic in the valorization of capital. Further, I will consider how abstract risk also emerges through in art as one node of valorization on this digitalized plane. Both instances subsume labor to value, and result in confusion between being a commodity and having a commodity. The question then could be: what antagonisms recur in such a valorization schema—which Marx discussed in the ironic terms of the “automatic subject” of value—and how may they be extended?

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	art, value, Marx, labour, critical theory, financialization
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event July 2018 Accepted July 2019 Published
Item ID:	29606
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2021 15:48
Last Modified:	28 Jul 2021 15:43
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29606

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