Book Review: Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

Abstract

Post-Marxism falls in alignment with, and draws directly on, Foucauldian biopolitical discourse, with its opposition of forms of measurement to ‘life’. The two labour-jettisoning tendencies . . . [end up] [g]utting Marx’s concepts while often continuing to draw on the cachet of the shells[.]