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MyCreativity Reader
Merijn Oudenampsen Back to the Future of the Creative City: An Archaeological Approach to Amsterdam’s Creative Redevelopment
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Brian Holmes Disconnecting the Dots of the Research Triangle: Corporatisation, Flexibilisation and Militarisation in the Creative Industries
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Joost Smiers What if We Would Not Have Copyright? New Business Models for Cultural Entrepreneurs
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Danny Butt Craft, Context and Method: The Creative Industries and Alternative Models
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Annelys de Vet Strange
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Alex Foti The Pink Rebellion of Copenhagen: Danish Youth Revolt and the Radicalisation of the European Creative Underclass
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Geert Lovink and Andrew Ross Organic Intellectual Work: Interview with Andrew Ross
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Appendices – Program of MyCreativity conference – Summary of the ‘Arts & Creative Industries’ Debate: MyCreativity mailing list – Wikipedia entry of Creative Industries – Sebastian Olma: On the Creativity of the Creative Industries: Some Reflections List of Contributors
a critique of creative industries
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THECREATIVITY
A PUBLICATION BY SANDBERG INSTITUTE, INSTITUTE OF NETWORK CULTURESAAND CENTRE FOR MEDIA RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER / FALL2006 2006 PUBLICATION BY THE SANDBERG INSTITUTE / FALL
A FREE ACCIDENTAL NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO THE ANONYMOUS CREATIVE WORKER CREATIVITY IS ALL WE HAVE LEFT BY KOERT VAN MENSVOORT PAGE 2 THE IMAGE OF OTHERS BY MIEKE GERRITZEN PAGE 5 THE END OF THE CREATIVE CLASS BY THEO PLOEG PAGE 6
PLEA FOR AN UNCREATIVE CITY BY BAVO PAGE 13 OF LOFTS AND LATTE BY MAX NATHAN PAGE 14 CALIFORNIA ĂœBERALLES BY TOBY MILLER PAGE 15
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■BY GEERT LOVINK & NED ROSSITER Conferences on ‘creative industries’ have become a set feature in many countries over the past few years. They usually consist of government policy-makers, arts administrators, a minister or two, a handful of professors, along with representatives from the business community eager to consolidate their government subsidies. What’s missing? Forget about analysis or critique. And there’s not going to be any creative producers or artists about - the condition of possibility for ‘the generation and exploitation of intellectual property’. For students and starters, these conferences cost too much to register. These events are captains-of-industry only. Why bother anyway to mix up with the dressed-up? There are coffee breaks dedicated to ‘networking’, but the deals appear to have been done elsewhere.
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