Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter (eds.): MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · cognitive capitalism, creative industries, creativity, critique, cultural production, culture industry, labour
“The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day conference sought to bring the trends and tendencies around the creative industries into critical question.
The “creative industries” concept was initiated by the UK Blair government in 1997 to revitalise de-industrialised urban zones. Gathering momentum after being celebrated in Richard Florida’s best-seller The Creative Class (2002), the concept mobilised around the world as the zeitgeist of creative entrepreneurs and policy-makers. Despite the euphoria surrounding the creative industries, there has been very little critical research that pays attention to local and national and variations, working conditions, the impact of restrictive intellectual property regimes and questions of economic sustainability. The reader presents academic research alongside activist reports that aim to dismantle the buzz-machine.”
Editorial assistance: Sabine Niederer
Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 2.5 Netherlands License
ISBN: 9879078146049
274 pages
Andreas Huyssen: After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, avant-garde, culture industry, fascism, high modernism, mass culture, modernism, pop art, postmodernism, poststructuralism
Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity—the historical avant-garde.
Publisher Indiana University Press, 1986
Theories of representation and difference
ISBN 0253203996, 9780253203991
244 pages
PDF (no OCR; updated on 2012-7-18)
Comment (1)Theodor W. Adorno: Aesthetic Theory (1970-) [DE, EN, PT, CZ, ES, IT]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art criticism, cultural production, cultural theory, culture industry
Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno’s magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.
German edition
Publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1970
English edition
Editors Gretel Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann
Newly translated, edited, and with a translator’s introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor
This translation published 1997 by The Athlone Press Ltd
This edition published 2002 by Continuum
ISBN 0826467571
383 pages
Wikipedia (EN)
Ästhetische Theorie (German, 1970, added on 2013-6-11, PDF)
Aesthetic Theory (English, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, 1997/2002, updated on 2013-6-11)
Teoría estética (Portuguese, trans. Artur Morão, 1993, added on 2013-6-11)
Estetická teorie (Czech, trans. Dušan Prokop, 1997, added on 2013-6-11)
Teoría estética (Spanish, trans. Jorge Navarro Pérez, 2004, added on 2013-6-11)
Teoria estetica (Italian, trans. Giovanni Matteucci, 2009, added on 2013-6-11)