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Book SynopsisIn global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this form of creative production. This important book points out the dangers and downfalls that accompany such a boom of the creative industries and the subordination of art to the economy and politics. Specifically, it shows that art, as a mode of social and aesthetic practice, is losing the very thing which it has striven for so desperately in the course of modernity: its independence from other spheres of human activity.
Table of ContentsPART 1: OPENNESS OF ART
1 Poetics and Politics of the Openness of Art
PART 2: ART & SCIENCE
2 Art as Acting Against the Program of the Apparatus
3 Art & Science Divergences, Convergences
4 Body Intervention as (Re)Gaining the Power over the Body
PART 3: THE POLITICS OF NEW MEDIA AND INTERVENTIONARY ART
5 Tactical Media
PART 4: ART IN SERVICE OF THE CAPITAL
6 Art as Investment. Institution of Art in Service of the Art Market
7 Art as Creative Economy?
