Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
From Printing to Streaming : Cultural Production under Capitalism - Michael Chanan

From Printing to Streaming

Cultural Production under Capitalism

By: Michael Chanan

Paperback | 20 October 2022 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $45.99

$18.00

61%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $4.50 with

In Stock and Ships in 1-2 business days

For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however, capital is hostile to the arts because it cannot fully control the process of creativity. But while he saw the arts as marginal to capital accumulation, that was before the birth of the mass media.



Engaging with the major issues in Marxist theory around art and capitalism, From Printing to Streaming traces how the logic of cultural capitalism evolved from the print age to digital times, tracking the development of printing, photography, sound recording, newsprint, advertising, film and broadcasting, exploring the peculiarities of each as commodities, and their recent transformation by digital technology, where everything melts into computer code.



Showing how these developments have had profound implications for both cultural creation and consumption, Chanan offers a radical and comprehensive analysis of the commodification of artistic creation and the struggle to realise its potential in the digital age.

Industry Reviews

'Chanan's rich historical investigations of the evolving technologies of artistic production provide a fascinating new basis for a politics of culture'

-- Michael Hardt, author of 'The Subversive 70s'

'Drawing on nearly fifty years of writing and teaching about the media and making films, Michael Chanan presents us with a series overlapping histories of different media technologies, which is both authoritative and original'

-- Julian Petley, Honorary and Emeritus Professor of Journalism at Brunel University, London

'Michael Chanan's brilliant synthesis, replete with fascinating detail, both boggles the mind and deeply educates'

-- Claudia Gorbman, Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma

More in Art Treatments & Subjects

Ecology Matters : Conversations with Australian Ecologists - The Ecological Society of Australia
Holbein : Renaissance Master - Elizabeth Goldring

RRP $82.95

$60.75

27%
OFF
The Art of Kaylene Whiskey : Do You Believe in Love? - Natalie King
Mamba & Mambacita Forever - Vanessa Bryant

RRP $70.00

$49.75

29%
OFF
I Am. We Are. Liberty - Ester Coen

RRP $175.00

$121.75

30%
OFF
365 Days of Art : A Creative Exercise for Every Day of the Year - Lorna Scobie
Dog Only Knows : The Dog Portraits of Alison Friend - Alison Friend
The House of Hades : Heroes of Olympus Series : Book 4 - Rick Riordan
Cressida Campbell - National Gallery of Australia

RRP $89.99

$68.75

24%
OFF
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling - John Muir Laws
365 Days of Art in Nature : Find Inspiration Every Day in the Natural World - Lorna Scobie
After the Rain : 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial - Tony Albert
Planet Fungi : A Photographer's Foray - Catherine Marciniak

RRP $59.99

$47.75

20%
OFF
Art Is : A Journey into the Light - Makoto Fujimura

RRP $51.95

$40.75

22%
OFF
Unveiled : A memoir - Vincent Fantauzzo

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF