reviews
The book OKEANOS illustrates, documents, and discusses several projects that focus on shipping by Allan Sekula (1951–2013), an American documentary photographer and theorist.
Read MoreThe book claims to be about the creative economy and culture, but does not engage much with what culture means exactly.
Read MoreIn December 2015, the Strategy Directorate of the Arts Council Malta published its Create 2020 Strategy. What do they intend to do and how?
Read MoreMy review of Dave O’Brien’s book Cultural Policy: Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries in Cultural Trends
Read MoreThere is a problem with gross domestic product (GDP) as a concept, but there is no easy way to replace it with an equally simple and clear-cut indicator. That is the bottom line of Lorenzo Fioramonti’s short and provocative book.
Read MoreKernfeld convincingly argues that one cannot simply posit pop song piracy as the illegal counterpart of the legitimate music businesses. In fact, piracy has often prompted much-needed innovations in the music business in technical and commercial terms.
Read MoreArjun Appadurai tackles an important issue with this collection of essays: the future. More precisely, he engages with The Future as a Cultural Fact, expanding on what this means for social sciences in general and for anthropology in particular.
Read MoreIntimate Distance engages with a seemingly unusual cultural interaction: Bolivian and Japanese performances of the indigenous music of Bolivia, framed as ‘Andean’ music.
Read MoreSeveral authors have previously explored the concept, nature, and functions of the cultural industries. Fitzgerald makes a most valuable contribution to this body of literature with an excellent theoretically informed and empirically rich account of a particular section of the cultural industries: corporations.
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