{"product_id":"infrastructural-critique-isbn-9781836741596","title":"Infrastructural Critique","description":"\u003cb\u003eA theory of art and infrastructure by one of the most brilliant critical theorists of her generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs we search for ways to imagine a life beyond capital and its drive to extinction, the dream of the institution as a critical refuge from existing social relations becomes less and less credible.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInfrastructural Critique\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new materialist counter-praxis. By treating the contemporary art institution as a resource base and site of struggle, Vishmidt reanimates critique by connecting it to the effort to erode capitalist authority over the means of our existence, build power and seize resources for new practices of social invention.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tour-de-force of Marxist philosophy, art criticism, Milanese radical feminism and AppleTV+ dinosaur documentaries, this book, edited in the wake of the author’s tragic early death, weaves in the gaps of theory and praxis to assess the main infrastructurally critical artmakers at work today. Approaching their practices as ‘crystal drills’ – at once means of seeing, and practical cutting implements – the text showcases the light-bending, life-shaping thinking of one of the most playful, politically radical theorists of her generation.\u003cb\u003eMarina Vishmidt \u003c\/b\u003e(1976–2024) was a philosopher, organiser and art theorist. One of the major critical theorists of her generation, her writing spanned art theory, feminist social reproduction theory, finance, ecology, labour and labour organising, value-form theory, black studies, and film. A lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and Professor of Art Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, her first book was \u003ci\u003eSpeculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value-Subjectivity in Art and Capital \u003c\/i\u003e(2018)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarne Abse Gogarty\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and art historian from London who teaches at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eWhat We Do Is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy\u003c\/i\u003e (Sternberg Press, 2023).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanny Hayward \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet and critic whose most recent books are \u003ci\u003eTraining Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e (Both are Worse, 2024) and \u003ci\u003eLoading Terminal \u003c\/i\u003e(87 Press, 2022).  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKerstin Stakemeier\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer in Berlin and educator at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. With Marina Vishmidt, she co-authored \u003ci\u003eReproducing Autonomy\u003c\/i\u003e (Mute, 2016).","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532157432037,"sku":"NP9781836741596","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/infrastructural-critique-isbn-9781836741596","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}