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Uncle Nick Wilson
No full textDrawing of Uncle Nick Wilson, White Indian Boy and Pony Express Rider.Photograph
Creativity at Work: Who Cares? Towards an Ethics of Creativity as a Structured Practice of Care
Full text link“Creativity at work” signifies a complex and contested site of research. On the one hand, it is where we might locate the extraordinary capacity of human beings to create objects, events, and experiences that afford entertainment, delight, pleasure, insight, meaning and solace. On the other hand, it is where we witness the capitalist mode of production and the broader ideology of neoliberalism perpetuating inequalities, precariousness, bias and forms of “un-freedom” that constrain rather than enable our creativity. This capstone chapter explores further the ethical nature of this fascinating context of transformative human activity. First, the chapter introduces a novel theory of creativity – as a structured practice of care. Then, it reviews research “evidence” from across the Handbook (and elsewhere) to critically assess ways in which this radical theoretical perspective is born out by practice. Finally, the chapter offers a forward-looking discussion and two over-arching recommendations for “creativity at work”.<br/
Entrepreneurship in Music and the Goldilocks Principle: “Highway to Hell” or “Together Forever”?
No full textEntrepreneurship and creativity at work are intimately related. Scrutinized from the perspective of a cultural context such as that of music, the extent of entrepreneurship considered desirable is a matter of heated debate. According to the Goldilocks Principle there ought to be an amount of entrepreneurship in music that is … “just right!”. Common sense suggests this is somewhere between artistic autonomy and economic reality. In this chapter I’ll be following Goldilocks in the search for the fabled just right! relationship. In bringing attention to the “slow-burning crisis” that characterizes music-making as an archetypical practice of creativity at work in an increasingly marketized neoliberal society, I propose a “détournement” of entrepreneurship, whereby the way we ‘do’ music in society is defined by “creative citizenship” and the collective ideal of self-actualization through mutuality (Together Forever), rather than the market or money (Highway to Hell). <br/
The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age, by Nick Wilson
Full text linkGeoffrey Burgess discusses Nick Wilson\u27s 2013 work.
Wilson, Nick. The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0199939930
Editors preface
Full text linkWelcome to this Handbook of Creativity at Work. Our aim in bringing together this interdisciplinary compilation of forward-looking and critical research-led articles has been to provide authoritative and up-to-date scholarship and debate concerning creativity at work. The volume provides a timely opportunity to re-evaluate our understanding of creativity, work, and the pivotal relationship between them. It is all too easily forgotten that the word “creativity” only appeared in common usage in the early 20th century, though, of course, there is nothing “modern” about creative activity or ability per se. Though creativity is today most readily associated with artistic, aesthetic and cultural activity – “work” in the context of the “creative industries” and the wider “creative economy” – its value in society was contingent upon science and technology, which revealed human independence as being possible , and the introduction of free-market economics, when constant innovation became inescapably necessary . Far from being a new arrival on the scene, the context of “work” has always been a place shaped and sharpened by creativity, as well as a site that determines, where, when, how, and for whom creativity emerges
Slow culture: an introduction
No full text[Extract] There is a powerful message permeating our social lives today, found in our self-help networks, talkback television and radio shows, and online forums. It is a warning that, through technology and modernisation, our lifestyles have become increasingly hectic, fast, complex and immediate. 'Life', writes online author Leo Babauta (2009, para. 2), 'moves at such a fast pace that it seems to pass us by before we can really enjoy it'. We are encouraged to take a step back, to breathe deeply and 'slow down', in order to recapture the essence of 'real' living. By doing so, we can escape the seemingly endless stresses associated with our multi-tasked, time-compressed and instantaneous speed culture (Tomlinson 2007). This book presents illustrations of how people are beginning to disentangle themselves from a speed culture by embracing slowness. It is not simply a matter of slowing down, as the term implies, but of undertaking changes in the way we do things at an everyday level. Underpinning these transformations is a concern, as Babauta (2009) suggests, with the uniquely stressful lifestyles we are living in contemporary culture
Book Review: Nick Cheesman, Nicholas Farrelly and Trevor Wilson: Debating Democratization in Myanmar
No full textBook Review of the edited volume: Cheesman, Nick, Nicholas Farrelly, and Trevor Wilson (eds) (2014), Debating Democratization in Myanmar. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ISBN: 978-981-4519-13-7, 381 page
Book Review: Cheesman, Nick, Nicholas Farrelly, and Trevor Wilson: Debating Democratization in Myanmar
No full textBook Review of the edited volume: Cheesman, Nick, Nicholas Farrelly, and Trevor Wilson (eds) (2014), Debating Democratization in Myanmar. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ISBN: 978-981-4519-13-7, 381 page
Book Review: Cheesman, Nick, Nicholas Farrelly, and Trevor Wilson: Debating Democratization in Myanmar
No full textBook Review of the edited volume: Cheesman, Nick, Nicholas Farrelly, and Trevor Wilson (eds) (2014), Debating Democratization in Myanmar. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ISBN: 978-981-4519-13-7, 381 page
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