A plea for promiscuous creativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12599298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeroen De Kloet (0000-0003-2314-5424, Beijing Language and Culture University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13675494251371663 |
| OpenAlex | W4414578291 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Creativity, along with its associated terms precarity and resilience, is often viewed as a mode of governmentality that drives neoliberalism. Such a critique is not only repetitive and condescending towards creative practitioners, but it is also Eurocentric. The notion of promiscuity helps to emphasise creativity’s collaborative relationality and move beyond its anthropocentric underpinnings. This requires a combination of ethnographic approaches with a close reading of texts
Anthropocentrism · Creativity · Ethnography · Governmentality · Mode (computer interface · Negotiation · Plea · Precarity · Promiscuity · Reading (process · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
The Limits of Critique
The Precariat
Neo-Bohemia
Chinese Creator Economies
Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Era
The Rules of Art
Re-claiming resilience and re-imagining welfare
Be creative
The spectre of Europe
Does Cultural Studies Have Futures? Should It? (Or What's the Matter With New York)
Poetics of relation
A thousand plateaus
Writing behind Bars
The Invention of Creativity
Creativity, anti-humanism and the 'new sociology of art
The Amazing Bounce-Backable Woman
Work Faster, Harder, Cheaper? Global, Local and Sectoral Co-Configurations of Job Insecurities Among Hong Kong Creative Workers
Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
Stories and Cosmogonies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |