Category: Creative Industries
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The Ticketmaster Oasis Fiasco and the inherent flaws of neoliberal governance
Were you involved in yesterday’s Ticketmaster fiasco around Oasis tickets? I was. I queued for nearly 7 hours, only to be booted out at the end as I was accused of being a bot. Luckily, I was part of a group of us all trying to secure tickets, and one…
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The Big Breakfast: the first meal of Cool Britainnia
Yes I know, I’ve perhaps been reading too much of Mark Fisher of late, but I really do think he was on to something. Perhaps it’s because I’m a child of the 90s, maybe because my first ever proper job gave me a front row seat in the ever-accelerating juggernaut…
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The (not so) original sin of Apple’s ‘Crush’ Advert
Apple have a bit of history with controversial commercials. The infamous 1984 cinematic ad directed by Ridley Scott won a sack full of awards, but many commentators highlighted how it signalled the birth of a kind of consumerist tech capitalism in which products’ branding and image were far more important…
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Escaping 1997
Have you noticed that we’re stuck in the year of 1997? If you call recall that time, it was the apotheosis of neoliberalism with Bill Clinton securing a second term as US president and Tony Blair blustered into Number 10 riding the coattails of Cool Britannia culture and associated celebrities.…
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Whose bailout is it anyway? Saving the Arts may not save Culture
The recent announcement by the government that they are giving a £1.57bn ‘bailout’ to the UK’s arts and cultural sector has been hugely welcoming. As far as traditionally culture-shy and fiscally prudent Conservative governments go, it is a huge amount; it is almost three times the annual budget of Arts…
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We have always been Creative
Just a quick note to say that over on the OpenDemocracy website, they very gracefully decided to publish my response to this piece by Adam Lent for the RSA. The headline argument is that the last 250 years has not seen a sudden surge in the creative spirit, it has seen the appropriation of…
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Seoul: A Cyborg City
Gazing upon the mediated architecture, video walls and fastidiousness of the esoterically sculpted digital installations of Seoul’s Digital Media City (DMC), it is hard not to think that you’ve somehow transferred from one city into another, without taking a step. A high-tech urban fantasy seamlessly superimposed onto the existing cityscape. Indeed in…
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Creative Failure – cr8net 2012
Failure is a dirty word. Business leaders won’t stand for it, politicians try to hide it and generally, it’s seen as something to avoid. But it seems, given the talks and discussions today at #cr8net hosted by CIDA, it is essential for creativity. The stories of how creativity has escaped…
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CFP: Spatialities of Digital and Creative Work, RGS-IBG 2012
Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 2-5th July, University of Edinburgh Session convenors: Rachel Granger, Coventry University, UK Oli Mould, University of Salford, UK SPATIALITIES OF DIGITAL AND CREATIVE WORK While research on the growing and highly influential digital and creative industries has been well-represented in recent years, this…
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