PLX 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Creative Class, Gentrification, The Cultural Creatives
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It"s a flexible, chill place that"s like super cool. It"s a creative reimagining of the work environment. Makes it feel elitist; it"s like who belongs and who doesn"t. Accountants zoo people can see in but can"t actually go in. Wrote a poem about a story of a couple. A guy sitting in a new lit looking cafe in paris waiting for his gf, and he sees like disabled poor people and he feels bad. But the gf is like ew they"re gross they should leave here. Linking neoliberalism to the creative city policies. Calling more attention to cultural production (supporting the spaces and actors that produce culture) and not only cultural consumption cities, (the branding of cities, only supporting the spaces and actors that can sell cultural for economic returns) There are numerous unintended consequences of cultural funding driven by an externally referenced economic agenda. The dark side of flexible, independent work culture for the creative class.
