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Cultural Worker, Not A “Creative”
While a concept like “consumer-creator” might make the average artist wince, it’s nonetheless viewed as an exciting opportunity for anyone hoping to make commercial gains in the music technology industry. Not everyone sees themselves as artists, but everyone is a consumer. What could be a more efficient way to expand your total addressable market t... See more
Devon Hansen • The great process squeeze: How efficiency bias is choking the music industry
For creative people this hits especially hard as social media’s invention of “personal brands,” “influencers,” and the “Creator Economy” turned the few remaining aspects of life that hadn’t yet been marketized into the last ways we could make a living without working for somebody else. Gradually and then suddenly creative people found themselves do... See more
Sell out without selling out
“"AI is sold as a tool for creators, but it's designed to erase them, cheap, fast, and infinitely scalable. And here’s the thing: we’re doing this to ourselves. We call it innovation. It’s actually a slow-motion cultural extinction. We’re participants in our own cultural and economic erasure."
The operative sense of “creative” that really mattered to most researchers and their funders had to do with productive labor outside the household, particularly highly educated “brain work” that was at the time virtually off limits to everyone except for White men. This was, consequently, the sense of creativity embraced by many women as they sough
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