The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture (Cultures of Society) - Softcover

Timon Beyes; Jörg Metelmann; Erik And Others Born

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837645096 ISBN 13: 9783837645095

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2018

Synopsis

Wherever we turn, we find creative practices and creative spaces, creative organizations and creative subjects. At work or in public places, in media representations and in advertisements, on social platforms, in schools and universities: There is a demand to be new and special, conspicuous and singular. How did this creativity complex and its imperative to be creative come about? Which terms and concepts enable us to understand its multiple and partly contradictory forms and processes? Where are its limits? Gathering and interweaving 40 short and incisive essays, this companion maps, investigates and illuminates the contemporary creativity complex.

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About the Author

Timon Beyes, geb. 1973, ist Professor für Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg sowie am Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy der Copenhagen Business School, Dänemark. Er arbeitet zu Prozessen, Räumen und Ästhetiken der Organisation, insbesondere in den Feldern der Medien- und Stadtkultur, der Gegenwartskunst und der universitären Lehre. Jörg Metelmann (Dr. phil. habil.), geb. 1970, ist Ständiger Dozent und Titularprofessor für Kultur- und Medienwissenschaft an der Universität St. Gallen. Seine Interessen in Forschung und Lehre liegen in der Gefühlspolitik, Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen, dem Kreativitätskomplex und der Zukunft der Wirtschaftsausbildung.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837645096
• ISBN 13: 9783837645095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Timon Beyes, Jörg Metelmann, Erik And Others Born