Art/Commons : Anthropology Beyond Capitalism

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Cover Contents Acknowledgements Part I TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY OF ART/COMMONS Prologue Movement and the political economy of life Commons Capitalism and abstraction Art, labour, slavery and the actions that make the world alive Abstraction and the avant-garde: A historical interlude Conclusion: Part I Part II (AUTO)ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMON PRACTICES 1 Beyond the cinematic mode of production: Film labour, manual labour and intellectual labour in the making of ‘Steel Lives’, Sheffield The spectacle of labour and working-class cinema in the UK Relations of production, economies of film and modes of circulation Antinomies of realism: Indigenous aesthetics/communist aesthetics and militant cinema 2 Beyond institutional critique: Instituting otherwise with Athens Biennale Past ‘post-occupy art’ OMONIA (unity): Instituting the collective subject The contested political economy of art: Between commons and rentier capitalism Postcolonialism versus neocolonialism: Commoning the South? Art’s structures of feeling: Capitalist realism, cinism and melodrama 3 Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) Naples liberated spaces Madrid: Master in urban commons Athens Conclusion: Part II Art as a living form (Steel Lives) Art as ritual gesture and fieldwork (Athens Biennale) Art as militant research, knowledge and prefiguration (IRI) Epilogue Notes Bibliography Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Index