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Wagers Within the Image

Rise of Visuality, Transformation of Labour, Aesthetic Regimes

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The idea here is to mediologically take the measure of some of the socio-historical transformations in the gap between the conjunctures marked, however inadequately, by the terms proletariat and multitude. Such an approach has important implications for the politics of cultural praxis.

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Beller, J. (2013). Wagers Within the Image. In: Peters, M.A., Besley, T. (eds) The Creative University. Creative Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-245-7_8

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