The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies

Cham : Springer, 2020.

Under the general editorship: Kompatsiaris P., Mylonas Y., Kiriya I.

Science, technology and innovation (STI) studies are interrelated, as are STI policies and policy studies. This series of books aims to contribute to improved understanding of these interrelations. Their importance has become more widely recognized, as the role of innovation in driving economic development and fostering societal welfare has become almost conventional wisdom. Interdisciplinary in coverage, the series focuses on the links between STI, business, and the broader economy and society. The series includes conceptual and empirical contributions, which aim to extend our theoretical grasp while offering practical relevance. Relevant topics include the economic and social impacts of STI, STI policy design and implementation, technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship (and related policies), foresight studies, and analysis of emerging technologies. The series is addressed to professionals in research and teaching, consultancies and industry, government and international organizations.

Chapters

The Only Place Where One Can Feel Connected to an International Context and Still Speak Russian: Hybrid Creative Work in Post-Soviet Contemporary Art Institutions

Kuleva M., , in: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies.: Cham: Springer, 2020. P. 49–59.

This chapter focuses on the hybrid creative labor of managers in Moscow-based contemporary art institutions. The Russian context is of interest because its young contemporary art market is still transitioning from the Soviet cultural monopoly to an open-market economy, and it, therefore, lacks established standards of cultural production, especially in the case of institutional organizations. ...

Added: October 12, 2020

The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Introducing Concepts, Theories, and Themes

Kiriya I., Mylonas Y., Kompatsiaris P., , in: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies.: Cham: Springer, 2020. Ch. 1 P. 1–13.

In this introduction we explore how creativity, loosely referring to activities around the visual arts, music, design, film, and performance, is mobilized by states and governments as a “resource” for economic growth. The creative economy discourse emphasizes individuality, innovation, self-fulfillment, career advancement, and the idea of leading exciting lives as remedies to social alienation. Drawing ...

Added: November 3, 2020

From Craft to Industry: Industrializing the Marginal Domains of Cultural Industries

Kiriya I., , in: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies.: Cham: Springer, 2020. Ch. 11 P. 163–174.

For a long time, the basic underlying principle of cultural industries was the idea that the process of reproduction could be industrialized but not the creation itself. Over the course of a few dozers years, this idea determined the nonindustrial character of particular domains of culture, such as theater and performing arts, and some fields ...

Added: November 3, 2020

Creativity in the Service of Economic Recovery and “National Salvation”: Dispatches from the Greek Crisis Social Factory

Mylonas Y., , in: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies.: Cham: Springer, 2020. P. 95–111.

This chapter focuses on discursive constructions of creativity in the Greek public sphere in connection to the Greek government debt crisis. Instrumentalized by policy makers and pundits pursuing neoliberal reforms in Greece, creativity is understood to serve a mode of biopolitical governmentality. This is connected to the production of a national consensus over the necessity ...

Added: January 19, 2021

The Art Biennial’s Dilemma: Political Activism as Spectacle in Aesthetic Capitalism

Kompatsiaris P., Endrissat N., , in: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies.: Cham: Springer, 2020. P. 77–93.

In recent decades, the biennial has become the most widespread mode of showcasing contemporary art. Rather than acting as mere aesthetic containers, these shows aspire to be socially relevant by raising questions about capitalism, colonialism, inequality, environmental devastation, and gender imbalances. In this chapter, we draw from ethnographic observation of the 7th Berlin Biennale (2012) ...

Added: March 9, 2021

Keywords: креативность, creativity, science, technology, creative industries, креативные индустрии, industrialization of culture, индустриализация культуры, Agendas of cultural policy, Creativity and public policy, The creative political economy