Creative work rhetoric shifted capitalism’s promises even where work stayed mundane
Evidence
But something has shifted in the ways in which work is imagined and legitimated, and the sorts of promises that capitalism makes, a shift of which financialization and the ascendent discourse of creativity are both parts. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 441
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: New Economy rhetoric framed corporate labor as creative self-actualization to secure unpaid overtime. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 144; The discourse of creativity masks real needs that capitalism cannot actually satisfy — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 572; Creative-city doctrine gets coopted into capturing worker creativity for capitalist discipline — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 460 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Creative-city doctrine gets coopted into capturing worker creativity for capitalist discipline
#exemplifies(0.82) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 460 - Capitalism sustains legitimacy through broken promises, not fulfilled ones
#complicates(0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 118 - The discourse of creativity masks real needs that capitalism cannot actually satisfy
#expands(0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 572 - Economic change does not directly supply the content of capitalist ideas
#qualifies(0.75) - The rhetoric of creativity masks Marxian exploitation of living labor.
#expands(0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 452