Lovink, GeertRossiter, Ned2023-02-172023-02-172007978-90-78146-04-9https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/mycreativity-reader-geert-lovink-ned-rossiter/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20458The 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 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.<ul> <li><a href='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=7'>Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter: <i>Proposals for Creative Research: Introduction to the MyCreativity Reader</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=11'>Andrew Ross: <i> Nice Work if You Can Get It: The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policy</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=23'>Toby Miller: <i>Can Natural Luddites Make Things Explode or Travel Faster?</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=27'>Marion von Osten: <i>Unpredictable Outcomes: A Reflection After Some Years of Debates on Creativity and Creative Industries</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=32'>David Hesmondhalgh: <i>Creative Labour as a Basis for a Critique of Creative Industries Policy<i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=37'>Matteo Pasquinelli: <i>ICW – Immaterial Civil War: Prototypes of Conflict within Cognitive Capitalism</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=43'>Geert Lovink and Christoph Spehr: <i>Out-Cooperating the Empire?</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=51'>Michael Keane: <i>Re-imagining Chinese Creativity: The Rise of a Super-Sign</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=57'>Aphra Kerr: <i>From Boston to Berlin: Creativity and Digital Media Industries in the Celtic Tiger</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=64'>Max Nathan: <i>Wrong in the Right Way? Creative Class Theory and City Economic Performance in the UK</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=73'>Elisabeth Mayerhofer and Monika Mokre: <i>The Creative Industries in Austria: The Glories of the Past vs. the Uncertainties of the Present</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=78'>Annelys de Vet: <i>Creativity is Not About Industry</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=79'>BAVO (Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels): <i>The Murder of Creativity in Rotterdam: From Total Creative Environments to Gentripunctural Injections</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=85'>Merijn Oudenampsen: <i>Back to the Future of the Creative City: An Archaeological Approach to Amsterdam’s Creative Redevelopment</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=91'>Brian Holmes: <i>Disconnecting the Dots of the Research Triangle: Corporatisation, Flexibilisation and Militarisation in the Creative Industries</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=98'>Joost Smiers: <i>What if We Would Not Have Copyright? New Business Models for Cultural Entrepreneurs</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=106'>Danny Butt: <i>Craft, Context and Method: The Creative Industries and Alternative Models</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=112'>Annelys de Vet: <i>Strange</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=113'>Alex Foti: <i>The Pink Rebellion of Copenhagen: Danish Youth Revolt and the Radicalisation of the European Creative Underclass</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=115'>Geert Lovink and Andrew Ross: <i>Organic Intellectual Work: Interview with Andrew Ross</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20458/INC-Reader_3_Lovink-Rossiter_2007_MyCreativity-Reader_.pdf#page=121'><i>Appendices</i></a></li>engCreative IndustriesCriticismCreativity300Richard Florida10.25969/mediarep/19283THE CREATIVE CLASS