compositionist

As a compositionist, I want to respond to the post suggesting you go into comp/rhet because of job opportunities.

The Dangers (?) Of Academic Blogs 2006

This is the Copernican revolution, already present in Marx, but made explicit by compositionist Marxism; it is not capital that innovates and produces new productive relations but workers whose tendency is towards the refusal of work, which becomes, with increasing technical development, superfluous as Marx also foresaw.

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Grundrisse coupled with the insistence on the primacy of the refusal of work, is what led to the conceptualising of the 'general intellect' which became perhaps the key concept for many compositionist Marxists.

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This enabled compositionist Marxism not only to grasp the shifting dimensions of class composition by including groups such as students and immaterial and social labourers as intrinsic rather than extrinsic to relations of production, but also, from an analysis of the potentials opened up by automation, to prefigure the digital relations of production that only began to be realised from the 1970s.

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While there are incisive treatments of both humanist and Althusserian Marxisms, it is the Italian workerist or as Bifo calls it compositionist variety that is of most interest and importance.

Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2009