« From
industrial capitalism to imaterial capitalism: some elements of
reflection »
Alain Herscovici
Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil >>> Download the communication (french)
Economists and sociologists always faced difficulties on the studies
of the nature and the social and economic functions of the imaterial
activities linked to culture, information and knowledge. Besides
the empirical observation, they do not elaborate any theoretical
construction, capable of analysing the nature and amplitude of the
social and economic disrupts that characterize the cognitive capitalism.
The development of imaterial activities permits questioning the explicative
value of the Labour Value Theory, as it was proposed by the Classic
economists. In order to demonstrate this, it is necessary to
study the new forms of productive work as well as the modalities
of creation and social appropriation of the value.
In the first part, based upon the limits of the merchandise form,
I intend to show why the classical Labour Value Theory is uncapable
of explaining the actual fase of the capitalism. I also intend to provide
the explicative elements of the new forms of competition and
valuation of capital. In a second part, I will define the
new forms of value that carachterizes the post fordist
capitalism and intend to show, based on Fernand Braudel´s work
, in which manner this comtemporary form of capitalism inscribes
it self in the long run evolution of the system. Finally, on
the scope of an antropological, cultural and historical perspective,
I will show the reasons why it`s possible to question the legitimacy
of the propriety rights pertinent to the different forms of imaterial
production.
«Neoliberal transformation of CMI and politics :‘cybernanthropisation’ of the public sphere »
Jean-Guy Lacroix
University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
After recalled in what et how the actual cultural industries, the
information and the communication submerge the society, our paper
will look, first, to determine what is the role of those sectors
of human activities in the process of totalization of the alienation
of the human subject (his systematization and systemization). In
a second movement, we expect to show that the thesis of Castells
(L’ère de l’information) et de Melucci
(Challenging Code) on the relation between of the politic
to the medias and «new social movements» hide the proper
political dimension of the deterioration of the functioning of the
public space (his «cybernanthropization», in reference
to the work of Henri Lefebvre (Vers le cybernanthrope))
and of the subsomption of his democratic finality.
«Transformations
in the cultural industries in Mexico
»
José Carlos Lozano
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico >>> Download
the communication
The paper looks at the flow of television and film messages in Mexico,
a developing country which signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with
the United States and Canada, agreement that went into effect January 1, 1994. After
a review of the recent transformations of the Mexican audiovisual space, the paper
discusses empirical data about the flow of television and film imports in Mexico
and the degree of genre and content diversity. Political economists´ argument about
the impact of a high concentration of media ownership in the ideological diversity of the
genres and contents of media messages is checked against the empirical data on the
audiovisual supply in the case of Mexico.
« A Contemporary Art
Scene without Borders : The Positions of Different Countries in ‘the
Age of Globalization and Mixing’
An Empirical Survey of ‘High Culture’ and Globalization
»
Alain Quemin
University of Marne-La-Vallée, Institut Universitaire de France, CNRS, France
While there has been an increasing amount of research
into globalization since the 1990s, empirical sociological studies
in this area remain all too scarce. By analysing specific cases
in contemporary visual art, this presentation will show that the
widespread art world discourse on globalization, mixing and the
abolition of borders is to a large extent based on illusion. By
objectifying the positions occupied by different countries in the
field of art, the communication will bring to light a marked hierarchy
that reveals that, beyond the development of international exchanges,
the art world still has a clearly defined centre comprising a small
number of western countries, among which the US and Germany are
pre-eminent, and a vast periphery, comprising all the other states.
The specific example empirically analysed here will lead to a reconsideration
of earlier studies of cultural globalization, most of which are
based on data that were not created by the analyst or that were
essentially abstract.
« Contradictions in editorial globalisation :
the example of translations of literary and sociology works»
Gisèle Sapiro
CNRS, Centre of European Sociology, Fondation MSH Paris, France
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