Creative industry

Culture machines and (our) mutual obligations

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Creativism is creativity stripped of its critical potential.
– Pascal Gielen, Creativity and Other Fundamentalisms (2013)

AT THE END of 2011, data scientists at LinkedIn reported that the term its then 135 million members most frequently used to describe themselves was ‘creative’. Other popular terms included ‘industrious’, ‘innovative’ and ‘visionary’. One thing this illustrates is that we expect nothing bad – and perhaps too much – from creativity. On this inclination, sociologist Andreas Reckwitz, in The Invention of Creativity: Modern Society and the Culture of the New (2017), points out that

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