Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity
Radicalities and Alterities
Contributions by Óscar García Agustín, Sarita Albagli, Emiliana Armano, Eeva Berglund, Yann Moulier Boutang, Kristin Carls, Bruno Cava, Giuseppe Cocco, Andrea Fumagalli, Verónica Gago, Giorgio Griziotti, Clarissa Moreira, Cristina Morini, José Neves, Peter Pál Pelbart, Vladimir Sibylla Pires, Raluca Soreanu, Barbara Szaniecki, Bruno Tarin Edited by Giuseppe Cocco, Barbara Szaniecki
Publication date:
20 August 2015Length of book:
288 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498503983
The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled “Creative Capitalism”, five authors analyze the forms of contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new ways of working which include flexibility, mobility, and especially precarity; on the other, there are new forms of recovery and accumulation.
In the second part, titled “Multitudinous Creativities: Radicalities and Alterities”, the book reflects on more autonomous creative experiments in the world.
The third part, titled "Creativity, New Technologies, and Networks", analyses the issues related to the work of creative capitalism and the possible resistance within the digital and collaborative platforms.
Focusing a broad range of examples from the realms of social imagination and precarious cultural work, Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity is a translocal companion to creative and other commons. The book displays that with every piece of creativity sucked by machinic capitalism, countless new lines of invention are emerging as contemporary multitudinous radicality.