<html><head><base href="x-msg://386/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">Critique of Creativity</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’</span><br style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig (eds)</span><br>London: mayfly 2011, 234 pages</p><p>Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old myths of creation and creators – the hallowed labors and privileged agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical world-makers and self-fashioning artist-geniuses – are back underway, producing effects, circulating appeals. Much as the Catholic Church dresses the old creationism in the new gowns of ‘intelligent design’, the Creative Industries sound the clarion call to the Cultural Entrepreneurs. In the hype of the ‘creative class’ and the high flights of the digital bohemians, the renaissance of ‘the creatives’ is visibly enacted. The essays collected in this book analyze this complex resurgence of creation myths and formulate a contemporary critique of creativity.</p><p>With contributions by: Brigitta Kuster, Maurizio Lazzarato, Esther Leslie, Isabell Lorey, Angela McRobbie, Raimund Minichbauer, Monika Mokre, Stefan Nowotny, Marion von Osten, Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Suely Rolnik, Vassilis Tsianos, Paolo Virno, Ulf Wuggenig</p><p>Read online, download for free or purchase a paperback copy:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mayflybooks.org/?page_id=74" target="_self">http://mayflybooks.org/?page_id=74</a></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; ">---</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">Creating Worlds</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><a href="http://creatingworlds.eipcp.net/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; ">http://creatingworlds.eipcp.net</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; ">eipcp - european institute for progressive cultural policies</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; ">a-1060 vienna, gumpendorfer strasse 63b</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; ">a-4040 linz, harruckerstrasse 7</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:contact@eipcp.net"><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; ">contact@eipcp.net</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.eipcp.net/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; ">http://www.eipcp.net</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif; "> </p><div><br></div></div></span></body></html>