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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. 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. Don't Network proposes a third option to technocratic biocapitalism and social movement horizontalism, analysing the ways vanguard politics and avant-garde aesthetics can challenge the ideologies of the network society.

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The Hacienda has been built, but as a network economy that turns everyone into cannibalistic creatives that devour themselves and the planet satisfying the insatiable demands of the market. Don't Network offers a lucid analysis of the new class war going on in contemporary art and politics. - Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of After the Great Refusal Don't Network presents a compelling argument that outlines and undermines the hold of contemporary positivisms in politics, aesthetic and the social sciences. The book develops Lacanian schemas of incompleteness and Marxist dialectics to advance negation, rather than connectivity, as the core of any potential cultural avant-garde, and as part of a manifest vision for radical movements beyond diffuse and atomised moments of resistance. - Marina Vishmidt, author of Speculation as a Mode of Production

�Don�t Network presents a compelling argument that outlines and undermines the hold of contemporary positivisms in politics, aesthetic and the social sciences. The book develops Lacanian schemas of incompleteness and Marxist dialectics to advance negation, rather than connectivity, as the core of any potential cultural avant-garde, and as part of a manifest vision for radical movements beyond diffuse and atomised moments of resistance.� � Marina Vishmidt, author of Speculation as a Mode of Production �The Hacienda has been built, but as a network economy that turns everyone into cannibalistic creatives that devour themselves and the planet satisfying the insatiable demands of the market. Don�t Network offers a lucid analysis of the new class war going on in contemporary art and politics.� � Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of After the Great Refusal

Don't Network presents a compelling argument that outlines and undermines the hold of contemporary positivisms in politics, aesthetic and the social sciences. The book develops Lacanian schemas of incompleteness and Marxist dialectics to advance negation, rather than connectivity, as the core of any potential cultural avant-garde, and as part of a manifest vision for radical movements beyond diffuse and atomised moments of resistance. - Marina Vishmidt, author of Speculation as a Mode of Production The Hacienda has been built, but as a network economy that turns everyone into cannibalistic creatives that devour themselves and the planet satisfying the insatiable demands of the market. Don't Network offers a lucid analysis of the new class war going on in contemporary art and politics. - Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, author of After the Great Refusal

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Marc James L�ger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is author of Brave New Avant Garde and Drive in Cinema, and editor of two volumes of The Idea of the Avant Garde � And What It Means Today.

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