Nina Power. The Social Brain and Its Missing Body: Work in the Age of Semio-capital from fashioned co Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 58 min 95 sec ✓ Published: 08-Dec-2015
Description: “[T]he social factory has become the factory of unhappiness.” Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s description of the ‘social brain’ in the era of semio-capital is profoundly melancholic. But what is the social factory? What can we say about the ‘social brain’? And is semio-capital really so different from the older kind? Discussions of contemporary work often pivot around a series of binary oppositions as unhelpful as they are tempting: if some work can be described as ‘immaterial’, do
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