Dream-architecture scenes expose the vacuousness of the creative industries

Evidence

The scenes in which the team prepare for Fischer’s inception might have been designed to bring out the depressing vacuousness of the concept of the ‘creative industries’. They play like a marketing team’s own fantasies about what they themselves are doing: the view from inside an Apprentice contestant’s head, perhaps. In any case, Inception seems to be less a meta-meditation on the power of cinema than a reflection of the way in which cinematic techniques have become imbricated into a banal spectacle which – fusing business machismo, entertainment protocols and breathless hype – enjoys an unprecedented dominion over our working lives and our dreaming minds. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 526

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the creative-labor/economy thread of reading; the notion that ‘creativity’ discourse has become corporate spectacle parallels the commercialization angles in curated sources.
• XREF: The ‘creative industries as banal spectacle’ critique builds on ideas in the Frankfurt School material about culture industry subsuming labor and leisure together. — connects to: The attention economy has captured control of how cultures dream — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 435; Inception’s dream architecture mirrors the vacuousness of creative-industries ideology. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 526

Broader Connections

• Inception’s dream architecture mirrors the vacuousness of creative-industries ideology. #corroborates (0.98) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 526