Last week, I was lucky enough to attend Mark Banks’s AHRC-funded seminar, ‘Cultural work and cultural value‘. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay for the whole thing, missing most of Daniel Ashton’s talk (which was shaping up to be very interesting by the time I had to run off) and all of Kate Oakley’s (which was guaranteed to be interesting, but which I missed every second of). So there was one fewer tweeter for their contributions. But there was a lot of tweeting overall, indicating the excitement and enthusiasm of the event. See below; that’s the point of this post. You will, I hope, find some hints of what was said by Mark himself on the value of work, Calvin Taylor on the history of the economic/aesthetic/ethical value trichotomy, Christina Hughes on valuing in the campaign to save Birmingham’s jewellery quarter, David Hesmondhalgh on the neo-Aristotelian conception of aesthetic/cultural value, and the aforementioned Kate Oakley and Daniel Ashton on, respectively, cultural policy and the training of cultural producers.
Sadly, it was to be the last event Mark would organise at the Open University, where I’ve been very fortunate to be his colleague. Next week, he takes up a full professorship at the University of Leicester. Congratulations, Mark – and good luck!
Introduction
#culturalwork and #culturalvalue – seminar organised by @MarkOliverBanks at the Open University for 21 Feb http://t.co/h79yND37wV
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) January 16, 2014
#culturalwork Glad to be at the Cultural Work, Cultural Value symposium at the Open University. Mark Banks is first.
— Julie Rak (@rak_dr) February 21, 2014
Follow #culturalwork for Cultural Work/Value symposium @PLongy @KarenPatel @elebelfiore @jezc @rjlwarwick
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
‘What is work worth?’
Mark Banks (Open University)
Here we go. Mark Banks first. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks is now speaking at #culturalwork event about the Elvis-like comeback of the creative industries to UK policy discourse
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks New measures: creative industries now defined as those employing a significant proportion of 'creative' people >
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
> and NOT defined by the kind of product produced @MarkOliverBanks #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
At the Open Universe for #culturalwork, hearing from Mark Banks that 1 of 12 jobs in the U.K. are in the creative industries.
— Alison Harvey (@digitalpromises) February 21, 2014
N.B. Proud to teach at the Open Universe.
#culturalwork Creative Industries are worth £8m per hour in the UK
— ICCLiverpool (@ICCLiverpool) February 21, 2014
Are new dcms ci figures Smoke and mirrors or victory of evidence based policy? #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
But what is the value? #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Pen issues. Can someone tell me if I have ink on my face? #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks defines cultural industries as: organised production of goods valued as symbolic. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
N.B. ‘Cultural’, not ‘creative’. Significant difference.
Why do these matter? @MarkOliverBanks: cultural industries have been valued in 3 broad ways #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Cultural industries help with the examination of life, Mark Banks #culturalwork
— ICCLiverpool (@ICCLiverpool) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: for Adorno etc, the cultural industries were valueLESS (vulgarity, tainted product, etc) #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: today, the cultural industries are understood less as 'manifestations of a corrupted enlightenment', more as >
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@MarkOliverBanks > contributors to national economy (intellectual property etc) #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Value of CIs as contexts for expression, politics and sociality. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks Between these two poles, focus on cultural industries as providing valuable cultural critique. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
N.B. That was the third way.
Tension of economic value with value as critique. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks In the UK, the rise of the term 'creative industries' was linked to attempts to avoid accusations of elitism, and >
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks > separate support for culture from older traditions of patronage. > #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: this involves valuing culture FOR its economic success. References to noneconomic value of culture are rare #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
This tensionn rendered invisible by CI policy which privileges the economic. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: Logic of the market assumes greater precedence. But value of culture as politics/critique still asserted. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: Providing cultural workers with relative autonomy to fashion goods provides for future accumulation. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Transformative power! And the vital affordances of culture. Cool start from @MarkOliverBanks at the OU #culturalwork.
— Bridget Condor (@agent_condo) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: public demand for the works of freely acting creators provides SOME cultural workers with unusual freedom > #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Tension within CIs between necessary autonomous production and capital accumulation. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: Industry can get around this to some extent with standardisation, but can't escape need for novelty. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks Thus, abiding desires for transformative value coexist with commercial values. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
CIs can't become economically disembedded nor divested of intrinsic cultural value. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Cultural worker embedded in this dual value relation #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks But value of cultural WORK neglected in policy. Workers ignored or inherent value of 'creative' work assumed #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks 'Why do people work here and what do they get (or give) out of it?' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
‘Cultural value: between ethics and economic regulation’
Calvin Taylor (University of Leeds)
.@HuddsCFT is now speaking at #culturalwork and #culturalvalue seminar
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Calivn Taylor is talking about the nature of value. Our idea of value is mobile. Hard to work through. #culturalwork
— Julie Rak (@rak_dr) February 21, 2014
Calvin Taylor up now. Historical construction of value. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork watch http://t.co/DXG8RyeV5d re: the performance of the creative worker
— tamsyn_dent (@tamsyn_dent) February 21, 2014
Economic value, aesthetic value and ethical value. This last one gets forgotten? #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT: tension between economic value & not only aesthetic/cultural value but also ETHICAL value #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Taylor is saying there should be consideration of economic, aesthetic and ethical value. #culturalwork
— Julie Rak (@rak_dr) February 21, 2014
Where's the CI stuff going? Somewhere positive, Calvin wants to suggest. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT's avowed optimism: 'SOME of this creative industries stuff MIGHT have positive progressive political consequences' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT focuses on persisting legacy of 18th C trichotomy between the aesthetic, the economic, and the ethical. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT global economic crisis has renewed interest in how to live #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT recalls 18th century contrasting of the aesthetic with the consumption of 'luxury' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Be my colleague? #ahrcconnect #creativeeconomy @CultIntermed project http://t.co/qoSBi39AVR … @ahrcpress @ahrcconnect #culturalwork
— Saskia Warren (@SaskiaWarren1) February 21, 2014
N.B. Not sure that was actually a livetweet from the symposium, but – it’s a job! Sounds interesting too. Apply for it, somebody!
.@HuddsCFT says John Roberts's 'The Intelligibility of Form' is one of the best books he has ever read. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Cultural production a kind of social production, not for the market place. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT CC Williams's 'A Commodified World?': we engage in a whole range of non-commodified activities that are > #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT > nonetheless economically fundamental. Housework, for example. Also 'art'? #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Adam Arvidsson's 'The Ethical Economy' emphasises how political all this is. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
If relationships are at the heart of the work we do, ethical considerations must be at the forefront #culturalwork
— Alison Harvey (@digitalpromises) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT 2 traditions of overcoming the 18th C trichotomy. 1: Benthamite utilitarianism, rehashed in the Treasury Green Book #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Green Book a manual of Benthanist utilitarianism. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT This is the argument that all human value is commensurable under 'utility' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Utilitarianism collapses aesthetic, economic and ethical value. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
@HuddsCFT 2: The labour theory of value, which begins in 17th C but in 20th C was kept alive only by Marxists. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT This a political concept. Locke: my labour=integral to my person, my property=that in which my labour is 'mixed' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Until Hegel, the division of labour mediated by exchange was treated as natural. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT In 'The Philosophy of Mind', Hegel recognises it as historically specific and as a source of social division. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Value a historical construct that represents a fundamental source of alienation. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Marx builds on this to argue that value is the alienated form of labour #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Keynes argued capitalism could be protected by if workers received a share of the benefits of economic growth. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
N.B. Calvin acknowledged that Keynes was not an advocate of the labour theory of value.
.@HuddsCFT And Keynes co-founded the Arts Council. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Labour is back on the agenda again, partly because crash – but also because HOW WE MAKE culture is so fundamental #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Why is 'labour' back on the agenda ? How we make culture is what is driving our interest in labour. #culturalwork
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT relates tech-facilitated social production of culture to 'petty commodity production' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Is this small scale capitalism, a privileged bourgeois lifestyle choice, or an alternative to capital? #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@HuddsCFT This kind of activity is scaling up – no longer marginal to urban life. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT (in part because – thanks to tech – a petty commodity producer's interactions are no longer limited to the local) #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT This scaling up may lead to new regimes of value. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
N.B. But see livetweets from Susan Luckman’s talk on Etsy at the ‘Placing cultural work‘ event she co-organised with Mark last autumn.
.@HuddsCFT Arvidsson: possibility of dual production regime, capitalist and petty commodity production. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Arvidsson: also possible that capital may subsume petty commodity production or that the latter may become dominant #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
N.B. I did not tweet these three points from Arvidsson in the order that Calvin cited them. The second above was the last; the last above was the first.
#culturalwork What's specific to 'cultural value' rather than value in the cultural field? Is the idea of 'culture' a good starting point?
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT (reply to q) Distinguishing cultural aspects of life from cultural sphere more productive > #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT > than searching for essential cultural value (which is always articulated instrumentally). #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
— Paul Long (@PLongy) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Can't make sense of conflict between the economic and aesthetic/cultural value without re-engaging with the ethical #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@HuddsCFT Post-crash, we're seeking a language for discussing how to live (well & in communities). This is the ethical. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks Bourdieu brilliant for dismantling romanticism & revealing competitive relations but is reductive wrt value #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
N.B. The above is a summary of Mark’s response to an audience question about why he didn’t draw on Bourdieu.
‘Comparisons of value in the Birmingham jewellery quarter’
Christina Hughes (University of Warwick)
Christina Hughes (Warwick) about to speak on 'Comparisons of Value in the Bham Jewellery Qtr' at #culturalwork and #culturalvalue seminar
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes on the economically and spatially endagered jewellery designers, makers in Birmingham. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: 'symbiotic' relationship between different parts of the supply chain in the craft jewellery business #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: 'symbiotic' relationship between different parts of the supply chain in the craft jewellery business #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: lament among producers over increasing rarity of specialists in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Campaigns to save the quarter and its buildings… But not the makers? #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: how does something be thought to have value, and worth saving? Value is relational. #culturalwork
— Julie Rak (@rak_dr) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: 'value is always relational'. Value: a sign of rank order. Not all positions within the 'ecology' are equal. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Check out #culturalwork some really excellent tweets about the papers
— Dave O'Brien (@DrDaveOBrien) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes links the politics of value attribution within the Jewellery Quarter to ecological conservation campaigns #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Campaigns to save heritage buildings in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter but campaign to save the designer-maker #culturalwork
— ICCLiverpool (@ICCLiverpool) February 21, 2014
N.B. I could be wrong, but I think there might be a ‘no’ missing from the above?
Christina Hughes: 'what is the vital life that has to be preserved?' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: what 'give[s] rise to narratives of such exceptionality?' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: 'How do we come to know and care about… [the] endangered?' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork Politics of value attribution: some lives are more important than others. Why?
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes focuses on the role of numbers in such discourse. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
'How do we come to know and care about different life forms as endangered?' Narratives, exceptionality and preservation. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Christina Hugues describes B'ham Jewellery Quarter workers as 'truly faithful workers' in the face of such precarious work. #culturalwork
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork what is value in cultural work? Tensions are apparent in the case of dancers who value dance above all else but feel devalued
— Heidi Ashton (@DrHeidiAshton) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: endangerment campaigns appeal to nostalgia for an enumerated entity ('you'll be sorry when it's gone') #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: numbers invoked to conjure age, longevity, vibrancy, size, originality necessity to the nation #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: also to demonstrate the quarter's necessity to the survival of the city #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: but what kind of community is implied by the rhetoric for its preservation? #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: the designer-maker should ask a defensive question, 'What is the worth of me?' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes notes the frequent implication that women's creative businesses are for 'pin money' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: things valued above people in policy discourse ('look how many architectural practices!') #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Christina Hughes: emphasises that designer-makers are businesspeople and must assert their value #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
‘Cultural, aesthetic and economic value: the case of music’
David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds)
.@hesmondthing pays tribute to Stuart Hall at the start of his contribution to the #culturalvalue and #culturalwork seminar
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Popped out for a second there. @hesmondthing now. A better balance between economic, social and aesthetic value required. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
N.B. Wish I’d kept my eyes open for people ‘popping out’ – then I might have figured out who Jon W is. This was the second event we’ve livetweeted ‘together’. Practically an introduction.
.@hesmondthing Economic and social value often trump aesthetic and cultural value #culturalwork #culturalvalue
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing Nihilistic anti-humanism has swayed many in cultural studies away from the aesthetic #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Need to get over an aversion to aesthetics and emotion,: to critique instrumental cultural appropriation. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: This may have strengthened the hand of those interest groups opposed to intellectual autonomy. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: 'Three neo-Aristolelian concepts that might help' #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Think around concepts of flourishing, capabilities and the moral economy. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
N.B. Thanks, Jon. I missed the third one while I was, uhm, tweeting.
.@hesmondthing: 1. Flourishing. Nussbaum: central role of artworks in human understanding and in collective emotional life. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: Nussbaum: in narrative fiction, emotion towards characters, towards sense of life embodied in text, towards > #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: Nussbaum: > one's own possibilities, & in response to coming to understand something about life or oneself #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Distinction of emotional responses to music cf. Narrative fiction. More compressed, general. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Music might offer prospects for a good life, for flourishing. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: Flourishing (eudaimonia) ≠ happiness or pleasure. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: We need an objectivist rather than individualist or subjectivist account of flourishing. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: A pluralist but not relativist account of what wellbeing is. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Need an objectivist understaning of flourish to avoid subjective Understandings that reproducing structural inequality. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Oh this is cool @hesmondthing on culture, storytelling & human flourishing…#culturalwork.
— Bridget Condor (@agent_condo) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing: (Fundamental human characteristics are widely shared tho they may take different forms in different societies) #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: Which brings us to… 2. Capabilities (Amartya Sen). #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: Many of the capabilities in Nussbaum's list of ten relate to culture (e.g. 5: capability to form attachments) #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: Her account depends on appreciation of high culture (e.g. Mahler) but is applicable to 'more accessible' forms #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: More seriously, Nussbaum '[n]eglects collective, public, sociable aspects of music' > #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: > which are also missing from much recent discussion of #culturalvalue! #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
In what ways do economic arrangements enhance/diminish contribution of aesthetic-artistic experience? #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
How do economic arrangements enhance/diminish the knowledge & aesthetic experience to modern societies? #culturalwork
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
A moral economy approach to what values where and why — make normative judgements. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: @MarkOliverBanks's work valuable in connecting critique of markets with ethical concern with flourishing #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: Keat argues cultural goods help us understand own wellbeing yet likely to be underproduced in market economies #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Some great tweets coming from the #culturalwork seminar. Wish I could have made it!
— Dr Allan Watson (@AllanWatson1) February 21, 2014
@hesmondthing: This neo-Aristotelian thinking encourages thought on which social arrangements promote flourishing. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
On this subject, @hesmondthing now plays Candi Staton's Young Hearts Run Free #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Same here!! RT @AllanWatson1 Some great tweets coming from the #culturalwork seminar. Wish I could have made it!
— Eleonora Belfiore (@elebelfiore) February 21, 2014
.@MarkOliverBanks: 'Could I just ask why you chose that record?'
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing argues that #CandiStaton song enacts a battle between freedom & constraint and invites powerful reflection on emotional life
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork @hesmondthing deconstructing Young Hearts Run Free
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing (response to question about Nazi music): Music cannot escape the shit of modern society. Music is ambivalent. #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
.@hesmondthing (response to q) suggests that idea that culture promotes flourishing is an acceptable form of instrumentalism #culturalwork
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
@CEAnnette Does @IamCandiStaton know? #culturalwork
— Paul Long (@PLongy) February 21, 2014
David Hesmondhalgh advocates for a moral economy of culture. And he played Candi Stanton! #culturalwork
— Julie Rak (@rak_dr) February 21, 2014
@PLongy I thought @hesmondthing was also dancing but it turns out he was pointing @MarkOliverBanks to turn the lights off!
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
N.B. Note to self: if you want lots of tweets, play Candi Staton. Wait, what am I saying? Even if you don’t want lots of tweets, just play Candi Staton anyway.
Daniel Ashton (Bath Spa University)
‘Cultural work and critical pedagogies’
Daniel ashton on aspiring cultural workers. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Individual narratives of passion for can elide collective labour. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
No more tweeting from me on #culturalwork as I've got to rush away… it's been a brilliant seminar though and I'll try to keep following it.
— Daniel Allington (@dr_d_allington) February 21, 2014
Passion narratives are ubiquitous in the CIs. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Passion is willingnes and flexibility… And exploitability? Must take on 'undesirable' roles and 'keep on it'. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Relevant article onm passion https://t.co/kEX8De6PB4 #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
This looks great #culturalwork at another conference but perhaps this on activism is of interest via @Feminist_Times http://t.co/P1HKHI5AZs
— Susan O'Shea (@Susan_OShea) February 21, 2014
Deconstructing Do What You Love as a mantra underpinned by individualism, willingness to do shit jobs, and flexibility #culturalwork
— Alison Harvey (@digitalpromises) February 21, 2014
Employability practices as disciplinary practices #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork Employability agenda in #he: how can we discuss critical issues in practical courses? @DanielAshton
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork @DanielAshton discussing Cultural Work & Higher Education http://t.co/JzWR6jbv4f
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
How can HE offer critical and practical interventions in preparing students for the 'passion' of #culturalwork?
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork @DanielAshton a Education FOR the creative industries as well as education ABOUT the creative industries.
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
‘Work, justice, and mobility: policy for cultural labour’
Kate Oakley (University of Leeds)
It is kate oakley now. Missed the beginning but she told a good joke… Or, at least, got a decent laugh. #culturalwork
— Jon W (@jnthn_xiv) February 21, 2014
Typical arts worker in the U.K. is 34.5 yo, female, living in London, and earning around £19,000 a year while working 2 jobs #culturalwork
— Alison Harvey (@digitalpromises) February 21, 2014
#culturalwork Kate Oakley: Does everything have to be excellent? Reclaim the ordinary, good enough.
— Annette Naudin (@CEAnnette) February 21, 2014
Coda
Great day @ OU #culturalwork thankyou @hesmondthing @DanielAshton Kate Oakley, Christina Hughes, Calvin Taylor @dr_d_allington; now a drink
— Mark Oliver Banks (@MarkOliverBanks) February 21, 2014