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Cultural Identity Politics in the (Post-)Transitional Societies Table 3: Ranking of Slovene publishers in 2008 PUBLISHER NUMBER OF TITLES REVENUE PROFIT SUBSIDY Mladinska knjiga 552 52,118,547.00 4,787,490.00 506,798.50 Učila 308 4,484,087.00 1,021,101.00 13,000.00 Rokus 283 7,795,679.00 505,308.00 0.00 DZS 267 55,496,838.00 3,487,218.00 8,000.00 Modrijan 232 3,561,565.00 997,635.00 80,000.00 Družina 97 7,354,500.00 2,058,152.00 160,328.70 TZS 91 2,007,143.00 509,196.00 0.00 Mohorjeva 157 9,361,643.00 (-8,645) 95,724.05 Didakta 77 1,185,108.00 9,005.00 23,000.00 Študentska založba 70 x x 427,225.34 Cankarjeva založba 60 661,703.00 19,225.00 162,744.12 Identity of cultural workers We have said that the author has a role of entrepreneur or little capitalist in business agreements with his or her stronger partner, the publisher. A devil’s advocate may argue that we simply imposed a false presentation of labour as “capital” as it is seen from the point of view of capitalists in general, in traditional and new economies alike. One may also say that the hidden objective of this particular ideological mechanism is to conceal the true nature of labour as the only producer of new value and the consequential extraction of value produced by the labourer as “surplus labour”, that is, the labour performed in excess of the labour necessary to produce the means of livelihood of the worker (“necessary labour”). We answer that the position of an author is nevertheless unique in comparison to other parts of the labour force. As we have shown in the examination of production and circulation, the author is torn between wage labour and his or her (mostly illusionary) privileges as rentier. The effect is that he or she can identify neither with wage workers nor with the capitalist class. For this reason the author is twice déclassé in respect to both the labour class and the capitalist class. He or she has no allies or identity group to which he or she might belong, so his or her uncertainties in past turbulent events should not astonish us. Authors, for instance, did not oppose labour relations reforms targeting a reduction of social benefits which were first tried out in the field of culture (for example deregulation of authors’ fees, flexible employment, selfemployment, reduction of health insurance, etc.). They even applauded such reforms 138
Cultural identities from the bottom up – labour relations perspective and called for a more profound “modernization of the culture sector”. Torn between the interests of wage workers and the interests of the capitalist class, authors may have a significant role in the making of a new society, a new type of capitalist society which intends to subject all social relations to capitalist production. In order to gain a more propulsive social role for the intelligentsia, they would first need to carry out a radical reform of the cultural system and find a new way of integrating authors as labour force into cultural and science production. References Bauman, Z. (2005) “Freedom From, In and Through the State: T. H. Marshall’s Trinity of Rights Revisited”, Theoria, No. 108, December, pp. 13-27. Bourdieu, P. (1993) The Field of Cultural Production, New York: Columbia University Press. Breznik, M., Bogataj Jančič, M., Milohnić, A. and Kovačič, M. (2008) Upravljanje avtorskih in sorodnih pravic v digitalnem okolju [The Management of Author’s and Related Rights in the Digital Environment] (Online). Available at: http://www.mirovni-institut.si/ Projekt/Detail/en/projekt/The-Management-of-Author-s-and-Related-Rights-in-the- Digital-Environment/kategorija/Cultural_policy (4 January 2011). Chartier, R. (1994) The Order of Books, Stanford: Stanford University Press. Cohen, D. (2006) Trois leçons sur la société post-industrielle, Paris: Seuil. Cope, B. and Kalantzis, M. (2009) “Signs of epistemic disruption: transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal”, in Cope, B. and Phillips, A. (eds) The Future of the Academic Journal, Oxford: Chandos Publishing. Heinich, N. (2005) L’élite artiste: Excellence et singularité en régime démocratique, Paris: Gallimard. Krašovec, P. (2011) “Realna subsumcija v hramu duha” [Real Subsumption in the Temple of Intellect], in Kolšek, K. (ed.) Univerza in neoliberalizem, Novo mesto: Založba Goga, (In print). Lockwood, D. (1996) “Civic integration and class formation”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 47, No. 3, September, pp. 531-550. Mamdani, M. (ed.) (2000) Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk, New York: St. Martin Press. Marshall, T. H. (1992) Citizenship and Social Class, London: Pluto Press. Močnik, R. (1998) Koliko fašizma [How much fascism], Zagreb: Arkzin. Močnik, R. (2011) “Trg delovne sile in sestava delavskega razreda” [Labour market and the composition of labour class], Teorija in praksa, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 178-205. Schiffrin, A. (2000) The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read, London: Verso. 139
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