Abstract
Moving beyond Jonathan Crary's ontologically framed subject in his essay 24/7, the following essay calls on Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge's political economy of labor power in order to query the persistence of obstinacy within the neoliberal economy of 24/7. Tested against Harun Farocki's final film project co-produced with his wife Antje Ehmann, "Labour in a Single Shot," the essay argues that neoliberalism has in fact generated both tools and forms of collective agency that together call Crary's cultural pessimism into question.
Keywords:
- Keyword: Jonathan Crary
- Keyword: Harun Farocki
- Keyword: Antje Ehemann
- Keyword: Alexander Kluge
- Keyword: Oskar Negt
How to Cite:
Langston, R., (2016) “Eyes Wide Open: The Look of Obstinacy, the Gaze of the Camera, and the 24/7 Economy in Antja Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Labour in a Single Shot (2011-2015)”, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 40(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1883
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