Peer Production of Art

* Book: Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Gregory Sholette, Pluto Press, 2010

URL = p://www.gregorysholette.com/books/darkmatter_books.html

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"Radical Social Production and the Missing Mass of the Contemporary Art World Gregory Sholette (Pluto Press UK, forthcoming, 2009.) The premise of this book is that the formal economy of contemporary art is dependent upon a previously suppressed sphere of informal, non-market, social production involving systems of gift exchange, cooperative networks, distributed knowledge, and collective activities, which is becoming increasingly visible and potentially threatening to the symbolic and fiscal cohesion of high culture, especially in its most politicized form as interventionist art." (p://www.gregorysholette.com/books/darkmatter_books.html)