Creative Control : : The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries / / Michael L. Siciliano.

Workers in cultural industries often say that the best part of their job is the opportunity for creativity. At the same time, profit-minded managers at both traditional firms and digital platforms exhort workers to “be creative.” Even as cultural fields hold out the prospect of meaningful employment...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Part I. Introductions
  • Chapter One Creative Control?
  • Chapter Two Conflicting Creativities
  • Part II. SoniCo’s Social Regime
  • Chapter Three SoniCo’s Positive Pole: Aesthetic Subjectivities and Control
  • Chapter Four SoniCo’s Negative Pole: Mitigating Precarity and Alienated Judgment
  • Part III. The Future’s Quantified Regime
  • Chapter Five The Future’s Positive Pole: Platform Discipline, Transience, and Immersion
  • Chapter Six The Future’s Negative Pole: Compound Precarity and the (Infra)structure of Alienated Judgment
  • Part IV. Conclusion
  • Chapter Seven Toward a Theory of Creative Labor and a Politics of Judgment
  • METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX: ATTENDING TO DIFFERENCE IN SIMILARITY AND THE GENDER OF MY ACCESS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX