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1 online resource (226 pages) |
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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction: Doing the Unexpected, Creating the Present; Part I: Critical Cultural Practice; Chapter 1: Hans Haacke and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much; Chapter 2: Counting On Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice; Chapter 3: Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism; Part II: Creative Labour and Creative Industries; Chapter 4: 'Everyone is Creative': Artists as Pioneers of the New Economy? |
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Chapter 5: Creative Industries as Mass DeceptionChapter 6: Creative Industries: Neo-Liberalism as Mass Deception; Part III: Neoliberal Governmentality and Cultural Resistance; Chapter 7: Not So Quiet on the Western Front: A Report on Risk and Cultural Resistance within the Neo-Liberal Society of Fear; Chapter 8: From Reaching Heiligendamm: An Interview with Oliver Ressler; Chapter 9: 1 1/2 Métro Côte-des-Neiges: Do They Owe Us a Living?; Part IV: Subjectivity in the Age of Post-Politics; Chapter 10: Anonymous Monuments to the Ordinary Man and Woman: The Strange Case of Berlin's Ampelmännchen |
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Chapter 11: Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer III and the Status of the OtherChapter 12: On the Permanent Actuality for Revolutionary Cultural Politics of President Mao Ze Dong's Slogan 'Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution'; Contributors; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Cultural production as we know it has been undergoing significant restructuring. In an effort to compensate for the global decline in economic growth, governments and corporations have begun to seriously consider the creative fields as markets that can be stimulated through venture capital and regional development initiatives. Along with the neoliberalization of cultural institutions, a conservative agenda that is buttressed by a war economy confronts critics and activists with the repressive forms of state censorship and police control. From art collectives to the US-led war on terror, from cu |
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Print version record |
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Arts and society -- 21st century
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Civilization -- History -- 21st century
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Economic aspects -- 21st century
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Politics and culture.
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Neoliberalism.
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Cultural industries -- 21st century
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Arts and society.
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Civilization.
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Cultural industries.
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Neoliberalism.
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Politics and culture.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781841504506 |
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1841504505 |
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