Maroš Krivý, “Kultuuri ‘parasiidiaed’” [Culture as an Eden]. Müürileht, 39 (2014), 29.
published in Estonian
If some seventy years ago Theodor Adorno pinned down the term “cultural industry” in a critical spirit, it is today almost verbatim—as cultural (and creative) industries—used to describe what is seen as the key sector of the post-welfare, post-Fordist model of economic growth. How can we challenge the top-down model of undemocratic decision making without jumping on the bandwagon of bottom-up self-entrepreneurialization and self-precarization? It is here that cultural actors must politicize the realm of culture by considering its social forms and political effects and not only artistic content.
published in Estonian
If some seventy years ago Theodor Adorno pinned down the term “cultural industry” in a critical spirit, it is today almost verbatim—as cultural (and creative) industries—used to describe what is seen as the key sector of the post-welfare, post-Fordist model of economic growth. How can we challenge the top-down model of undemocratic decision making without jumping on the bandwagon of bottom-up self-entrepreneurialization and self-precarization? It is here that cultural actors must politicize the realm of culture by considering its social forms and political effects and not only artistic content.