Dave Beech is Professor of Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. He is the author of Art and Value: Art's Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (Brill 2015) which was shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize. He co-authored The Philistine Controversy (Verso, 2002) and Art and Text (Blackdog Books, 2011). He is a founding co-editor of the journal Art and the Public Sphere.

'Amplifying his previous defence of art's unique anti-capitalist status, Beech challenges post-capitalist fantasies envisioning either a future society of artists, or a utopia of aestheticised labour. I know of no other writer who so clearly lays-out the stakes regarding arts relation to value production, or what might follow upon capital's elimination'

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcapitalism, Critique and Art 1. What is Postcapitalism? 2. Art’s Hostility to Capitalism 3. Artists and the Politics of Work 4. Avant-Gardism and the Meanings of Automation 5. Laziness and the Technologies of Rest Conclusion: Gratuity, Digitalisation and Value Notes Bibliography Index

Dave Beech is Professor of Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. He is the author of Art and Value: Art's Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (Brill 2015) which was shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize. He co-authored The Philistine Controversy (Verso, 2002) and Art and Text (Blackdog Books, 2011). He is a founding co-editor of the journal Art and the Public Sphere.

'Amplifying his previous defence of art's unique anti-capitalist status, Beech challenges post-capitalist fantasies envisioning either a future society of artists, or a utopia of aestheticised labour. I know of no other writer who so clearly lays-out the stakes regarding arts relation to value production, or what might follow upon capital's elimination'

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcapitalism, Critique and Art 1. What is Postcapitalism? 2. Art’s Hostility to Capitalism 3. Artists and the Politics of Work 4. Avant-Gardism and the Meanings of Automation 5. Laziness and the Technologies of Rest Conclusion: Gratuity, Digitalisation and Value Notes Bibliography Index

Dave Beech is Professor of Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. He is the author of Art and Value: Art's Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (Brill 2015) which was shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize. He co-authored The Philistine Controversy (Verso, 2002) and Art and Text (Blackdog Books, 2011). He is a founding co-editor of the journal Art and the Public Sphere.

'Amplifying his previous defence of art's unique anti-capitalist status, Beech challenges post-capitalist fantasies envisioning either a future society of artists, or a utopia of aestheticised labour. I know of no other writer who so clearly lays-out the stakes regarding arts relation to value production, or what might follow upon capital's elimination'

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Postcapitalism, Critique and Art 1. What is Postcapitalism? 2. Art’s Hostility to Capitalism 3. Artists and the Politics of Work 4. Avant-Gardism and the Meanings of Automation 5. Laziness and the Technologies of Rest Conclusion: Gratuity, Digitalisation and Value Notes Bibliography Index