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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewFocusing 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
Table of ContentsContents 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 of network societies Yann Moulier Boutang ------------------------------------------------------------
