Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the 'Creative Industries'

by Gerald Raunig

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906948135
• ISBN13: 9781906948139
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Mayflybooks/Ephemera
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"