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The Instrumental leisure of the 'creative class' [Recurs electrònic] / Mark Banks
Series: Working paper (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change) ; 47Publication details: Milton Keynes : The Open University. Centre for Research on Sociocultural Change (CRESC), 2008Description: 17 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (326,39 Kb)Online resources: Summary: The utopianization of creative work is a pronounced feature of post-industrial societies. This paper analyses the attendant promotion of creative leisure, and its role in supporting discourses and practices of creative work. By analysing the example of Richard Florida’s popular text The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) it argues that while creative leisure is offered up as a model means for free and autonomous expression, it may be leading, paradoxically, to the erosion of freedom as the terrain of critical and disinterested leisure is pervasively colonized by discourses of economic rationality. Secondly, it is contended that while, traditionally, capital has always sought to regulate and administer leisure 'from above' – with workers variably 'resisting' below - such a model may no longer apply since (according to Florida) creative class subjects now appear to be actively choosing to perform (rather than being coerced into) economically-directed leisure. (Font: Autor)| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Abstract -- Introduction -- The Problem of Leisure -- Defining the Creative Class -- Creative Leisure – the Servant of Capital? -- Discussion -- References
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