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Fate Work: A Conversation, Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney
Fate Work: A Conversation, Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney
Stephen Matthias Harney
The article focuses on a conversation between dancer Valentina Desideri and professor Stefano Harney during the Spring Seminars of the Performance Art Forum (PAF) in Saint Erme, France. Harney suggests that fate work may be considered as a potential practice on the way work determines one's life. Desideri says that one can shape and construct his future through work under capitalism.
Unfinished Business: The Cultural Commodity And Its Labour Process, Stefano Harney
Unfinished Business: The Cultural Commodity And Its Labour Process, Stefano Harney
Stephen Matthias Harney
In what follows I am going to argue that the rise of the creative industries has in general been understood too narrowly. This narrow understanding has had implications for the way that a politics of management and labour in the creative industries has been framed and contained, and it has held back an analysis of class struggle in the creative industries. To elaborate an understanding of labour in the creative industries I am going to revisit some insights related to the development of British cultural studies, and try to link these insights to what Stuart Hall calls the conditions of …