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        1. Research Library

        Under Pressure: Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism

        Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw

        New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press 2008

        ISBN 9781933128276

      2. This slim volume is documentation of a conference organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt in 2006/7 during which the political constraints upon art and art production presented by today’s global capital and the dominance of free market ideology were discussed. See in particular Three Remarks Regarding the Multitude’s Subjectivity and Its Aesthetic Component by Paolo Virno and The Present Left and the Longing for Revolution by Luc Boltanski. See also Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello’s book The New Spirit of Capitalism.

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