[Commlist] CFP: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies

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

Editors: Kiriya, Ilya, Kompatsiaris, Panos, Mylonas, Yannis (Eds.)

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030531638


Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, 
design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce 
forms of affect and social meaning. Yet, over the last few decades, 
creativity has also been explicitly mobilized by governments around the 
world as a ‘resource’ for achieving 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. This book critically assesses 
that discourse, and explores how political shifts and new theoretical 
frameworks are affecting the creative economy in various parts of the 
world at a time when creative industries are becoming increasingly 
‘industrialized.’ Further, it highlights how work inequalities, 
oligopolistic strategies, competitive logics and unsustainable models 
are inherent weaknesses of the industrial model of creativity. The 
interdisciplinary contributions presented here address the 
operationalization of creative practices in a variety of geographical 
contexts, ranging from the UK, France and Russia, to Greece, Argentina 
and Italy, and examine issues concerning art biennials, museums, DIY 
cultures, technologies, creative writing, copyright laws, ideological 
formations, craft production and creative co-ops.

Contents

1 The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Introducing
Concepts, Theories, and Themes
Ilya Kiriya, Panos Kompatsiaris, and Yiannis Mylonas

Part I Sustainability: Creative Growth, Labor, and Skills

2 Towards Post-Growth Creative Economies? Building Sustainable
Cultural Production in Argentina Mark Banks and Paula Serafini

3 Creative Workers in Permanent Crisis: Labor in the Croatia’s
Contemporary Arts and Culture Jaka Primorac, Valerija Barada, and Edgar 
Buršić

4 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 Margarita I. 
Kuleva

5 Creative Writing Courses Are Useless: Creative Writing
Programs and the Italian Literary System
Cecilia Ghidotti

Part II Ideology: Creative Self-Expression and Aesthetics

6 The Art Biennial’s Dilemma: Political Activism as Spectacle in
Aesthetic Capitalism
Panos Kompatsiaris and Nada Endrissat

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

8 Production of Cultural Policy in Russia: Authority
and Intellectual Leadership
Tatiana Romashko

9 Manifestos of Rupture and Reconciliation: Do-it-Yourself (DiY)
Music Practices, Ethics and the Quest for Authenticity
in the Cultural Industries Evangelos Chrysagis

Part III Industrialization: Creative Markets and Technologies

10 Creative Industries, a Large Ongoing Project, Still Inaccurate
and Always Uncertain Bernard Miège

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

12 Intellectual Property Rights and the Production of Value
in a “Creative Economy”
Vincent Bullich

13 Innovation and Media: Googlization and Limited Creativity
Patrick-Yves Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois

Afterword: Emphasizing the Limits
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