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AGAINST CREATIVITY.

Danny White

As Zeynep Tufekci said (and is worth repeating) 'we cannot outsource our moral responsibility to machines'.

Creativity can be used to produce more social justice in the world, but it must be rescued from its current incarceration as purely an engine for economic growth.

Creativity is a distinctly neoliberal trait because it feeds the notion that the world and everything in it can be monetised

individualisation-masked-as-collectivism (fuelled by the neoliberal ideology of the importance of the enterprising self) explains the rise of 'co-working spaces' as the model working environment

Invoking Jane Jacob's adage that 'new ideas must use old buildings', the 'creative quarter' that utilises old industrial units or even constructs them anew is as homogeneous as it is ubiquitous.

We are nearly half a century on from when Neil Armstrong proclaimed that mankind had made a giant leap. Now, any giant leaps we make are dictated by private capital...

...Capitalism attempts to stop us from believing in the impossible, or at the very least, reconfigures our imagination so that any realised impossibilities must be profited from first.

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