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. http://www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/2008/01/ out_now_mycreat.html#more Out now: MyCreativity reader Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. ISBN: 987-90-78146-04-9 Order a copy of the book by sending a message to marijevaneck (at) networkcultures (dot) org. Download a low-res pdf from the website. About the book: The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day conference sought to bring the trends and tendencies around the creative industries into critical question. The 'creative industries' concept was initiated by the UK Blair government in 1997 to revitalise de-industrialised urban zones. Gathering momentum after being celebrated in Richard Florida's best-seller The Creative Class (2002), the concept mobilised around the world as the zeitgeist of creative entrepreneurs and policy-makers. Despite the euphoria surrounding the creative industries, there has been very little critical research that pays attention to local and national and variations, working conditions, the impact of restrictive intellectual property regimes and questions of economic sustainability. The reader presents academic research alongside activist reports that aim to dismantle the buzz-machine. MyCreativity Reader Contents Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Proposals for Creative Research: Introduction to the MyCreativity Reader 1. Andrew Ross Nice Work if You Can Get It: The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policy 2. Toby Miller Can Natural Luddites Make Things Explode or Travel Faster? 3. Marion von Osten Unpredictable Outcomes: A Reflection After Some Years of Debates on Creativity and Creative Industries 4. David Hesmondhalgh Creative Labour as a Basis for a Critique of Creative Industries Policy 5. Matteo Pasquinelli ICW – Immaterial Civil War: Prototypes of Conflict within Cognitive Capitalism 6. Geert Lovink and Christoph Spehr Out-Cooperating the Empire? 7. Michael Keane Re-imagining Chinese Creativity: The Rise of a Super-Sign 8. Aphra Kerr From Boston to Berlin: Creativity and Digital Media Industries in the Celtic Tiger 9. Max Nathan Wrong in the Right Way? Creative Class Theory and City Economic Performance in the UK 10. Monika Mokre and Elisabeth Mayerhofer The Creative Industries in Austria: The Glories of the Past vs. the Uncertainties of the Present 11. Annelys de Vet Creativity is Not About Industry 12. BAVO (Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels) The Murder of Creativity in Rotterdam: From Total Creative Environments to Gentripunctural Injections 13. Merijn Oudenampsen Back to the Future of the Creative City: An Archaeological Approach to Amsterdam's Creative Redevelopment 14. Brian Holmes Disconnecting the Dots of the Research Triangle: Corporatisation, Flexibilisation and Militarisation in the Creative Industries 15. Joost Smiers What if We Would Not Have Copyright? New Business Models for Cultural Entrepreneurs 16. Danny Butt Craft, Context and Method: The Creative Industries and Alternative Models 17. Annelys de Vet Strange 18. Alex Foti The Pink Rebellion of Copenhagen: Danish Youth Revolt and the Radicalisation of the European Creative Underclass 19. Geert Lovink and Andrew Ross Organic Intellectual Work: Interview with Andrew Ross Appendices: Program of MyCreativity conference Summary of the ‘Arts & Creative Industries’ Debate: My-Creativity Mailinglist, December 2006 Wikipedia entry of Creative Industries Sebastian Olma On the Creativity of the Creative Industries: Some Reflections Contributors' biographies _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann