Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Aesthetic Capitalism; Chapter 1 From the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism to the Creative Economy: Reflections on the New Spirit of Art and Capitalism; Chapter 2 The Artefacts of Capitalism and the Objecthood of Their Aesthetics; Chapter 3 The Aesthetic Spirit of Modern Capitalism; Chapter 4 The Visual Experience Economy: What Kind of Economics? On the Topologies of Aesthetic Capitalism; Chapter 5 Aesthetic Capital: Hermeneutic Speculation, Economic Themes, and the Dismal Science. and Chapter 6 The Social Negotiation of Aesthetics and Organisational DemocracyChapter 7 Neo-Modernism: Architecture in the Age of Aesthetic Capitalism; Chapter 8 The Aesthetics of Fiscal Consolidation; Chapter 9 The Innovative Role of Art in the Time of the Absence of Myth; Index.
Summary
Aesthetic Capitalism offers an innovative analysis of contemporary capitalism and its use of image, symbolism, creativity and other aesthetic elements to produce economic value.
