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Gothic Capitalism

By Adam Turl

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Gothic Capitalism

By Adam Turl

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
148
Release Date:
2025-05-02
Publication Date:
2025-05-02
Publisher:
Revol Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9526545923
ISBN13:
9789526545929
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
166 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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