{"product_id":"9781906496340","title":"Mute Magazine - Vol 2 #12","description":"Post-Fordist state planners, developers, and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of 'creativity' to a shallow pretext for the further looting of cities and public wealth. The cookie-cutter aestheticisation of selective zones of our cities (tourist promenades, waterside public art, creative quarters), is a mere fig leaf covering the acts of enclosure and exclusion that cultural regeneration entails. As the sensibilities of the Creative Class are sensationalised, courted, and monetised, the creative possibilities of the dehumanised majority narrow. But as the recession bites, there are signs that dreams of the Creative City are crashing, as the public-purse strings tighten and the financial sector's ability to underwrite the creative industries weakens. In this issue we revel in that possibility, explore artists' creative sabotage of their own regenerative co-optation, and philosophically examine what 'expression' might actually be.\u003cp\u003eDériving Under the Influence\u003cbr\u003eChris Jones inspects the wounds opened by Laura Oldfield Ford's pictures of regenerate London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCG2014: Formulary For a Skewed Urbanism\u003cbr\u003eNeil Gray ambushes the cowboy capitalists staking out Glasgow's 'urban frontier'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Creative City In Ruins\u003cbr\u003eArtist's project by Nils Norman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerning Art and Social Change\u003cbr\u003eBrian Holmes and Marco Deseriis on critical culture within recuperative 'semiocapitalism'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll Mouth, No History\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Dixon gets gobby with Christian Marazzi and his linguistic analysis of financialisation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebt: The First Five Thousand Years\u003cbr\u003eDavid Graeber gives us the elevator pitch on debt's violent history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHungry Ghost\u003cbr\u003eSteve McQueen's filmHunger whets Paul Helliwell's appetite for some political context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Climatic Disorder?\u003cbr\u003eJohn Cunningham clears the air after a meeting between Climate Campers and the NUM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The Simple Expression of Complex Thought'\u003cbr\u003eM. Beatrice Fazi splices interactive media and the philosophy of expression\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObjective Phantoms\u003cbr\u003eKenneth Cox toys with Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca's objects and desires\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mute Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057582817520,"sku":"9781906496340","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906496340_p0.jpg?v=1763617408","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906496340","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}