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The Aesthetics Of Exodus: Virno And Lyotard On Art, Timbre, And The General Intellect, Derek R. Ford
The Aesthetics Of Exodus: Virno And Lyotard On Art, Timbre, And The General Intellect, Derek R. Ford
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While the general intellect continues to provide a rich resource for understanding post-Fordism and for theorizing resistance, there remains a neglected aesthetic dimension to the general intellect and the role that art can play in resistance based on it. This article develops the general intellect along these lines by drawing on two theorists who are rarely thought together: Paolo Virno and Jean-François Lyotard. The article begins by introducing the general intellect and Virno’s reconceptualization of it as the general or generic intellect. It then introduces a relationship between art and the general intellect by reading Virno’s theory of language, speech, …