Hi Dave, I have just received mine this morning, and yes it is interesting :-)
marc > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
