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The business world has come to a point where anything that is not an exchange of money or economic power is non-essential and suspect. That we are all, at the end of the day, just homo economicus . Business considers culture to only be the aesthetic part of humanity; art, literature, music. This is narrow and completely wrong.

While the ideal of life as work of art served as an alternative to the pecuniary metaphor of life as a business and to the rational, ends-driven thinking associated with the commercial sphere, in the late twentieth century the Romantic idea of the artist sequestered from the demands of the market gave way to a new model of the artist as an entrepre

If we look up and out again at the broader context of this moment in time, at the collapse of the Consumer and the resurgence of the Subject Story, it’s plain to see this kind of incremental, organisation-by-organisation change is necessary, but not sufficient. In parallel, this must be a moment for a radical renewal of the relationship between the