Fictional Labor - Ethics and Cultural Production in the Digital Economy

At the intersection of economic philosophy and literary and visual analysis, this cross-media study advocates for the ethical role of fiction as a force of production. Fictional labor shapes the projection of an uncertain but curative future based on social relations that depend on alterity rather than economic profit.

About the author

Jiewon Baek is an independent researcher, formerly an Associate Professor of French at Covenant College.

Summary

The book’s close analyses demonstrate the aesthetic and formal aspects of literary and visual art that mediate between social relations to yield a dependence alterity, including the otherness of a precarious present, a menacing future beyond economic mastery, and an environment enmeshed with living beings and things.

Product details

• Authors: Jiewon Baek
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781836244363
• ISBN: 978-1-83624-436-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)