Hi Joel, I have ordered a copy & downloaded a pdf version, so will have a good read & see what it's all about :-)
wishing you well. marc > Marc; > > This reminds me of how Portland, Oregon, hyped "young creatives" moving > there a few years ago. > The idea was to attract businesses. It didn't work. Nor do the "young > creatives." > > -Joel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "marc garrett"<[email protected]> > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:39 AM > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and > Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’ > > > Critique of Creativity > Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’ > Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig (eds) > London: mayfly 2011, 234 pages > > Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old > myths of creation and creators – the hallowed labors and privileged > agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical world-makers and > self-fashioning artist-geniuses – are back underway, producing effects, > circulating appeals. Much as the Catholic Church dresses the old > creationism in the new gowns of ‘intelligent design’, the Creative > Industries sound the clarion call to the Cultural Entrepreneurs. In the > hype of the ‘creative class’ and the high flights of the digital > bohemians, the renaissance of ‘the creatives’ is visibly enacted. The > essays collected in this book analyze this complex resurgence of > creation myths and formulate a contemporary critique of creativity. > > With contributions by: Brigitta Kuster, Maurizio Lazzarato, Esther > Leslie, Isabell Lorey, Angela McRobbie, Raimund Minichbauer, Monika > Mokre, Stefan Nowotny, Marion von Osten, Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Suely > Rolnik, Vassilis Tsianos, Paolo Virno, Ulf Wuggenig > > Read online, download for free or purchase a paperback copy: > http://mayflybooks.org/?page_id=74 > > --- > Creating Worlds > http://creatingworlds.eipcp.net > > eipcp - european institute for progressive cultural policies > a-1060 vienna, gumpendorfer strasse 63b > a-4040 linz, harruckerstrasse 7 > [email protected] > http://www.eipcp.net > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
