I'll order a copy as well - sounds really interesting dave
On 13 July 2011 17:31, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- ============================ Sign the petition: Close residential streets on Sundays so children can play out: http://uservoice.com/a/cVvU6 ============================ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
