[microsound] Marxist aesthetics and Marxist aesthetics...

[Jason Wehmhoener]

Hmm, well that hits close to home.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Charles Turner <vze26m98 at optonline.net>wrote:

>
> Yet the ethnographic evidence on knowledge and creative industry
> workplaces shows that job gratification, for creatives, still comes at a
> heavy sacrificial cost – longer hours in pursuit of the satisfying
> finish, price discounts in return for aesthetic recognition,
> self-exploitation in response to the gift of autonomy, and
> dispensability in exchange for flexibility. If policymakers were to
> undertake official surveys of the quality of work life, they would find
> the old formula for creative work very much alive and well in its newly
> marketized environment. In this respect, arguably the most
> instrumentally valuable aspect of the creative work traditions is the
> carry-over of coping strategies, developed over centuries, to help
> endure a feast-or-famine economy in return for the promise of success
> and acclaim. The combination of this coping mentality with a production
> code of aesthetic perfectibility is a godsend for managers looking for
> employees capable of self-discipline under the most extreme job
> pressure. It is no surprise, then, that the 'artist' has been seen as
> the new model worker for high-skill, high-reward employment."
>
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