The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

Abstract

The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization provides an original account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture. Examining American conceptual art and experimental poetry alongside sociological and historical accounts of postwar labor, this book describes the cultural production of the period as a “counter-laboratory,” a space of speculation and experiment from which new modes of interaction emerged, premised on collaboration, mutability and free association, and utilizing the literary resources of lyric address, free indirect discourse, and the poetic line. As Bernes argues, these artistic models and challenges were eventually absorbed by industry in the long process of capitalist restructuring that followed the crisis of the 1970s, providing the conceptual germ for the eventual corporate grammar of participation, teamwork, flexibility, and creativity. The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization therefore provides a prehistory of the labor-intensive present, examining how the art and writing of the 1960s and 1970s served as a vanishing mediator, a set of challenges to work and the workplace that, unwittingly, assisted in the renewal of work and helped to reverse the trendline of rising wages and falling work hours that had held in most of the industrialized world for the better part of the 20th century. Bringing together an extensive understanding of postwar capitalism and postwar literary and artistic developments, Bernes demonstrates, conclusively, that the work of art and work in general share a common fate.

Carbon-chain molecules in molecular outflows and Lupus I region – new producing region and new forming mechanism

“…The reason for the non-detection of CCMs needs to be further examined. Cores Lup I-3/4 are associated with a bright emission nebula (B77) and a reflection nebula (GN 15.42.0) within about 35 (Bernes 1977;Magakian 2003). Its rather advanced evolutionary state and hot environment seem to be adverse to the production of CCMs.…”

Detection of CI line emission towards the oxygen-rich AGB star omi Ceti

“…A non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) RT code based on the Monte Carlo program (mcp) (see e.g. Bernes 1979;Schöier & Olofsson 2001a) was used to analyse the circumstellar CI emission. The CI is assumed to be excited by collision with H 2 molecules and through radiation from the central star, the dust and the cosmic microwave background.…”

SOC program for dust continuum radiative transfer

“…SOC can use a reference field to reduce the noise, especially in calculations that involve several iterations (Bernes 1979;Juvela 2005). In this method, each simulation step only estimates a correction to the average radiation field determined by the previous iterations.…”