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origin of the ‘creative industries’ term: 1) in 1997, within newly created Dept. of Culture+Media+Sports much revolved around IP rights through booming TV sales of soccer plays. This is how the IP story (measuring creative industries through IPR income) got connected to “creative industries”; 2) more obvious reference is Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’; 3) the creative industries meme itself was developed by a small group of consultants and New Labour politicians (amongst them Charles Leadbeather) that plotted how to increase the budget for arts by giving it more sexy name. This, still elitist approach, then got out of control. | Lazzarato: Creativity is sign of poverty, not wealth. Creative industry is still fordist term; old-fashioned way to think about economy | Sarkozy has proposed to create 2-layer system aimed to constantly monitor the productivity of university personnel. What system qualifies as ‘dead time’ is in reality the most creative time.
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2009/04/02/critique-of-the-creative-industries-event-in-vienna/

Instead of further promoting “free culture” I called for sustainable models for independent content producers. Code words here would be micropayments inside peer-to-peer networks, cultural flat rate, citizen-to-citizen loans and gifts, and more commercial concepts such as crowdfunding and the ‘freemium’ model in which payment finally becomes a possibility with the free and open no longer the only option.
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2009/04/24/the-future-after-intellectual-property-a-report-from-brussels/

Badiou agree with Negri’s formulation that for this reason socialism (which is a statist imaginary) can only be replaced by communism which is radically anti-state. However, Zizek struck a pragmatist note here to argue with Badiou and Judith Balso as to what, operationally, this ‘at a distance’ can possibly mean and how this is a pathetic anarchist recipe for marginality. | Zizek proclaimed that if there is one good thing about capitalism, it is that ‘Mother Earth no longer exists’ – amidst a slightly emabrassed applause from the audience. “We must remain resolutely modern” he further proclaimed.
http://kafila.org/2009/03/16/evangelist-st-zizek-and-the-end-of-philosophy-ii/

The key reference points for Badiou’s anti-statist version of communism are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Jacobins and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. He rejects the idea – fundamental to Marx – that the economic and the political are indivisible.
http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=99