MUTE MAGAZINE VOL 2 12

ISBN: 9781906496340 Géneros: AB:PSAF Sinópsis: PostFordist state planners developers and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of creativity to a shallow pretext for the further looting of cities and public wealth The cookiecutter aestheticisation of selective zones of our cities tourist promenades waterside public art creative quarters is a mere fig leaf covering the acts of enclosure and exclusion that cultural regeneration entails As the sensibilities of the Creative Class are sensationalised courted and monetised the creative possibilities of the dehumanised majority narrow But as the recession bites there are signs that dreams of the Creative City are crashing as the publicpurse strings tighten and the financial sectors ability to underwrite the creative industries weakens In this issue we revel in that possibility explore artists creative sabotage of their own regenerative cooptation and philosophically examine what expression might actually be Deriving Under the Influence Chris Jones inspects the wounds opened by Laura Oldfield Fords pictures of regenerate London CG2014 Formulary For a Skewed Urbanism Neil Gray ambushes the cowboy capitalists staking out Glasgows urban frontier The Creative City In Ruins Artists project by Nils Norman Concerning Art and Social Change Brian Holmes and Marco Deseriis on critical culture within recuperative semiocapitalism All Mouth No History William Dixon gets gobby with Christian Marazzi and his linguistic analysis of financialisation Debt The First Five Thousand Years David Graeber gives us the elevator pitch on debts violent history Hungry Ghost Steve McQueens filmHunger whets Paul Helliwells appetite for some political context A Climatic Disorder John Cunningham clears the air after a meeting between Climate Campers and the NUM The Simple Expression of Complex Thought M Beatrice Fazi splices interactive media and the philosophy of expression Objective Phantoms Kenneth Cox toy