{"id":484,"date":"2013-02-05T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:30:02","slug":"critique-of-creativity-precarity-subjectivity-and-resistance-in-the-creative-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the \u2018Creative Industries\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-485 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/978-1-906948-14-6.gif\" width=\"325\" height=\"461\" \/>Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old myths of creation and creators \u2013 the hallowed labors and privileged agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical world-makers and self-fashioning artist-geniuses \u2013 are back underway, producing effects, circulating appeals. Much as the Catholic Church dresses the old creationism in the new gowns of \u2018intelligent design\u2019, the Creative Industries sound the clarion call to the Cultural Entrepreneurs. In the hype of the \u2018creative class\u2019 and the high flights of the digital bohemians, the renaissance of \u2018the creatives\u2019 is visibly enacted. The essays collected in this book analyze this complex resurgence of creation myths and formulate a contemporary critique of creativity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig (eds)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0MayFly Books is an independent publishing press established in November 2005. We publish theoretical, political and aesthetic works on organization. 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