FW: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] DATA Browser 01

March 1, 2005

Type: discussion

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From: joasia <[email protected]>
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:53:21 +0000
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Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] DATA Browser 01

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The first book in the DATA Browser series:

ECONOMISING CULTURE: ON 'THE (DIGITAL) CULTURE INDUSTRY'

http://www.data-browser.net/01

contributors:
Carbon Defense League & Conglomco Media Conglomeration | Adam Chmielewski |
Jordan Crandall | Gameboyzz Orchestra | Marina Grzinic | Brian Holmes |
Margarete Jahrmann | Esther Leslie | Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings
|Armin Medosch | Julian Priest & James Stevens | Raqs Media Collective |
Mirko Tobias Schafer | Jeremy Valentine | The Yes Men

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The interaction between culture and economy was famously explored by Theodor
Adorno and Max Horkheimer by the term 'Kulturindustrie' (The Culture
Industry) to describe the production of mass culture and power relations
between capitalist producers and mass consumers. Their account is a bleak
one, but one that appears to hold continuing relevance, despite being
written in 1944. Today, the pervasiveness of network technologies has
contributed to the further erosion of the rigid boundaries between high art,
mass culture and the economy, resulting in new kinds of cultural production
charged with contradictions. On the one hand, the culture industry appears
to allow for resistant strategies using digital technologies, but on the
other it operates in the service of capital in ever more complex ways. This
publication, the first in the series, uses the concept of the culture
industry as a point of departure, and tests its currency under new
conditions.

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details:
Title: ECONOMISING CULTURE: ON OETHE (DIGITAL) CULTURE INDUSTRY