{"product_id":"an-activist-neuroaesthetic-reader","title":"An Activist Neuroaesthetic Reader","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sections-container\"\u003e\n\u003carticle id=\"post-626\" class=\"page-body style-color-xsdn-bg post-626 page type-page status-publish hentry\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-content un-no-sidebar-layout\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"row-unique-2\" class=\"vc_row row-container\" data-parent=\"true\" data-section=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row limit-width row-parent\" data-imgready=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wpb_row row-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wpb_column pos-top pos-center align_left column_parent col-lg-8 half-internal-gutter\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uncol style-light\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uncoltable\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uncell no-block-padding\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uncont\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uncode_text_column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the past ten years, a crisis has begun to emerge that is almost as significant as the one caused by the advent of cybernetics and immaterial labor. Just as the pioneers of the idea of cognitive capitalism (such as Antonio Negri, Silvia Federici, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Mario Tronti, among others) realized that the then coming digital economy would have serious consequences for labor and the production of subjectivity, so too will the imminent transition from the information economy to full-blown neural capitalism in which the material brain is at the center of capitalist commodification. This transition requires a new epistemological understanding with which to unpack, expose, and resist the consequences of this coming age. Activist neuroaesthetics is one such methodology. Activist neuroaesthetics attempts to make the processes of digital dominion and governmentalization – which are becoming more and more prominent in late-stage cognitive capitalism (or neural capitalism) – opaque, visible, and known. In this way, activist neuroaesthetics is a form of consciousness-raising that endeavors to subvert positivist neuroaesthetics’ attempts to co-opt the very neural basis of autonomous action and normalize it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Elena Agudio, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Ina Blom, Yann Moulier Boutang, Juli Carson, Yves Citton, Cécile Malaspina, Anna Munster, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Warren Neidich, Reza Negarestani, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Luciana Parisi, Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Tony David Sampson, Tiziana Terranova, Anuradha Vikram, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Charles T. Wolfe, and Slavoj Žižek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cfooter id=\"colophon\" class=\"site-footer\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"row-unique-3\" class=\"vc_row row-container\" data-parent=\"true\" data-section=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/footer\u003e","brand":"Archive Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357873840468,"sku":"A8B-31631","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Num_C3_A9riser_206_7e15d0b4-01f9-4bfc-a890-0b7b6fd506f3.jpg?v=1790813239","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/an-activist-neuroaesthetic-reader","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}