{"id":872,"date":"2018-07-25T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=872"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:03:07","slug":"dont-network-the-avant-garde-after-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t Network. The Avant Garde after Networks<br \/>\n<\/strong>Marc James L\u00e9ger<\/p>\n<p><em>Explores the nature of avant garde art within contemporary capitalism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is something rotten about network society. Although the information economy promises to create new forms of wealth and social cooperation, the real subsumption of labour under post-Fordism has instead produced a social factory of precarious labour and cybernetic surveillance. In this context people have turned to networks as an ersatz solution to social problems. Networks become the agent of history, a technological determinism that in the best-case scenario leads to post-capitalism but at worst leads to new forms of exploitation and inequality. <em>Don\u2019t Network<\/em> proposes a third option to technocratic biocapitalism and social movement horizontalism, an analysis of the ways in which vanguard politics and avant-garde aesthetics can today challenge the ideologies of the network society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hacienda\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0been built, but as an experience economy that turns everyone into cannibalistic creatives that devour themselves and the planet satisfying the insatiable demands of the market.\u00a0<em>Don\u2019t Network\u00a0<\/em>offers a lucid analysis of the new class war going on in contemporary art and politics, uncovering the antagonistic forces that confront the contradictions of the network economy.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of\u00a0<em>After the Great Refusal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn\u00a0<em>Don\u2019t Network<\/em>, Marc James L\u00e9ger develops a compellingly detailed and layered argument that outlines, and undermines, the blanket hold of contemporary positivisms in politics, aesthetics and the social sciences. A book that pitches itself\u00a0\u2018against\u2019 rather than \u2018about\u2019 ideologies of immanence on the biocapitalist left and right, it carefully develops Lacanian schemas of incompleteness and Marxist dialectics to advance negation, rather than connectivity, as the core of any potential cultural avant garde. This is part of a manifest vision for radical class struggle and institutions beyond\u00a0diffuse and atomised moments of resistance.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Marina Vishmidt, author of\u00a0<em>Speculation as a Mode of Production<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-BBDGLKLF6A588\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"BBDGLKLF6A588\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-BBDGLKLF6A588\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Official release to the book trade in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Available direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/dont-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don\u2019t Network. The Avant Garde after Networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>360 pages, 6 x 9<br \/>\nUK: \u00a322 \/ US: $27<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-339-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t Network. The Avant Garde after Networks Marc James L\u00e9ger Explores the nature of avant garde art within contemporary capitalism There is something rotten about network society. Although the information economy promises to create new forms of wealth and social cooperation, the real subsumption of labour under post-Fordism has instead produced a social factory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}