The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture

by Timon Beyes (Editor), Jörg Metelmann (Editor), Erik and others Born (Translator)

Overview

Wherever we turn, we find creative practices and creative spaces, creative organizations and creative subjects. At work or in public places, in media representations and in advertisements, on social platforms, in schools and universities: There is a demand to be new and special, conspicuous and singular. How did this creativity complex and its imperative to be creative come about? Which terms and concepts enable us to understand its multiple and partly contradictory forms and processes? Where are its limits? Gathering and interweaving 40 short and incisive essays, this companion maps, investigates and illuminates the contemporary creativity complex.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837645095
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Series:	Cultures of Society
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Timon Beyes is Professor of Sociology of Organisation and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His work is broadly situated in the research fields of organization studies and organizational sociology and focuses on the processes, spaces and aesthetics of organization in the fields of media culture, art, cities as well as higher education.
Jörg Metelmann, born in 1970, teaches Culture and Media Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He received his PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2003 and obtained his post-doctoral qualification from the University of St. Gallen in 2014. His research interests focus on the interaction between man and machine, the creativity complex and the future of business education.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Introduction The Creativity Complex 9
Aesthetic Capitalism 19
Aestheticization 25
Affect Culture 31
Artist 37
Atmosphere 43
Capital 48
Coaching 56
Co-Creation 63
Color 70
Computer 76
Consumption 82
Creative Cities 87
Creative Crowd 92
Creativity Techniques 98
Critique 104
Curating 109
Deaestheticization 114
Design 120
Dispositif 126
Fashion 131
Genealogy 136
Guilt 142
Imagineering 148
Improvisation 154
Innovation 160
Museum 165
Naturalization 171
Organization 177
Performativity 184
Plasticity 191
Play 197
Pop 201
Product 207
Queer 212
Self-Generation 217
Stage 222
Valorization 228
Work 232
Postscript 238
Authors 253