Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity: Radicalities and Alterities: Óscar García Agustín: Lexington Books

Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity

Radicalities and Alterities

Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity

Radicalities and Alterities

Description

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.

Contents

Chapter 1: Creative Capitalism

1. Cognitive, Relational (Creative) Labor and the Precarious Movement for “Commonfare”: “San Precario” and EuroMayDay.
Andrea Fumagalli

2. The case of the Braga stadium: work, spectacle and democracy in the 21st century
José Neves

3.The Common and its potential creativity: Post-crisis perspectives
Óscar García Agustín

4. Flexibility and mobility in the Creative Economy: Between "Feminization" of Creative Work and Slave Labor.
Verónica Gago (Argentina)

5. Network subjectivity and its culture of resistance: the challenges in post-fordist capitalism
Bruno Cava

Chapter 2: Multitudinous Creativities: Radicalities and Alterities

6. The creativity of the streets and the urbanism of disaster.
Clarissa Moreira

7. What Can a Face Do? What Can an Arm Do? The Brazilian Uprising and a New Aesthetic of Protest
Raluca Soreanu

8. Cognitive capitalism, the uprising of the multitude and museums:
for the "right to the city" and to "common places"
Vladimir Sibylla Pires

9. Biopolitical Shipwreck
Peter Pál Pelbart

10.Activist design in Helsinki: creating sustainable futures at the margins, the center, and everywhere in between
Eeva Berglund

Chapter 3: Creativity, New Technologies, and Networks

11. The “creative turn”: digital space and local dynamics *[1]
Sarita Albagli

12. From culture of labor to cultural labor: youth and networks in today's Brazil
Bruno Tarin

13. Autonomy, free labor and passions as devices of creative capitalism.
Narratives from a co-research in journalism and the editing industry
Cristina Morini, Kristin Carls, Emiliana Armano

14. Unblock the chain - Cooperative processes and P2P technologies: between commons and capitalist integration
Giorgio Griziotti

15. The pollination of creativity: for a basic income in the creative capitalism ofnetwork societies
Yann Moulier Boutang

Product details

Published	20 Aug 2015
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	288
ISBN	9781498503990
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	5 b/w photos; 4 tables; 2 graphs
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Giuseppe Cocco

Anthology Editor

Barbara Szaniecki

ÓA

Contributor

Óscar García Agustín

Contributor

Sarita Albagli

Contributor

Emiliana Armano

Contributor

Eeva Berglund

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Yann Moulier Boutang

Contributor

Kristin Carls

Contributor

Bruno Cava

Contributor

Giuseppe Cocco

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Andrea Fumagalli

Contributor

Verónica Gago

Contributor

Giorgio Griziotti

Contributor

Clarissa Moreira

Contributor

Cristina Morini

Contributor

José Neves

Contributor

Peter Pál Pelbart

Contributor

Vladimir Sibylla Pires

Contributor

Raluca Soreanu

Contributor

Barbara Szaniecki

Contributor

Bruno Tarin

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.

Gerald Raunig, European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies
The excellent essays in this collection analyze how creativity functions both with and against contemporary capitalism: how "creative work" configures new forms of domination and how creativity animates anticapitalist protest repertoires. In the course of the essays also emerges a fascinating dialogue between European and Latin American perspectives to demonstrate the extent to which creative capitalism looks and functions differently across the North / South divide.

Michael Hardt, Duke University