From the cultural contradictions of capitalism to the creative economy

Reflections on the new spirit of art and capitalism

Bibliographic Data

ID4480720
AuthorsDavid Roberts (0000-0002-5669-5011, Monash University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume110
Issue1
Pages83-97
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513612444563
OpenAlexW2162624148
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited12

The geography of contemporary bohemia is integral to Richard Florida's thesis of the rise of a new creative class in the USA. The strong correlation between the presence of bohemians and innovative high-tech industries in a number of American cities stands in sharp contrast to the historical image of a bohemian subculture of artists and intellectuals, defined by their antagonistic relationship to bourgeois society. Rather than a sign of social marginality, bohemian life-styles have now become a marker of the 'new economy', variously labeled the creative, the cultural or the aesthetic economy. In my paper I want to compare and contrast these two opposed images of bohemia - the 19th-century idea of bohemia as the libertarian other of liberal-bourgeois society and the new, highly topical economic geography of bohemia - with the following questions in mind: How and why does the 19th-century artistic critique of capitalism mutate into an expression of the new spirit of capitalism? Does this change from an antagonistic to an affirmative relationship signal the emergence of a new spirit of art that can be related to the new spirit of capitalism

Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Capitalism · Political science · Politics · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Subculture (biology) · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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