Eyes Wide Open: The Look of Obstinacy, the Gaze of the Camera, and the 24/7 Economy in Antja Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Labour in a Single Shot (2011-2015)

Authors

Richard Langston, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillFollow

Keywords

Jonathan Crary, Harun Farocki, Antje Ehemann, Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt

Abstract

Moving beyond Jonathan Crary's ontologically framed subject in his essay 24/7, the following essay calls on Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge's political economy of labor power in order to query the persistence of obstinacy within the neoliberal economy of 24/7. Tested against Harun Farocki's final film project co-produced with his wife Antje Ehmann, "Labour in a Single Shot," the essay argues that neoliberalism has in fact generated both tools and forms of collective agency that together call Crary's cultural pessimism into question.

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Recommended Citation

Langston, Richard (2016) "Eyes Wide Open: The Look of Obstinacy, the Gaze of the Camera, and the 24/7 Economy in Antja Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Labour in a Single Shot (2011-2015)," Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: Vol. 40: Iss. 2, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1883