Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty-first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it.
In this new book, the author provides a timely untangling of the various historical meanings of the term and explores the various ways in which it has been co-opted, suggesting that it has a strength that we should open up to examination with a view to reinvigorating it. Just as importantly, the book situates cultural democracy within the wider framework of progressive political and social movements, and of the impact of new digital information and communication technologies. To those unfamiliar with the term, it introduces cultural democracy through related concepts such as digital cultural politics, participatory democracy, and digital citizenship.
Providing a much-needed theoretical take on the growing interest in cultural democracy, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the arts as well as practitioners and policy makers. It combines theory and practice with a view to inciting both thought and action.
Author(s): Owen Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 205
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Introduction
Who Is this For?
Part I: Autonomous Vehicles
Part II: Cultural Landscapes
Part III: Making a Difference
Conclusions
Notes
Part I Autonomous Vehicles
1 The Mind and the Body
Initial Assumptions
Rene Descartes
Dualism
Notes
2 Problems With Selfhood
Thinking About Thinking
Freud, Jung, and Therapy
Fritz Perls
Benjamin Libet
Notes
3 Dennett’s Solution
The Color Phi
The Cutaneous Rabbit
The Multiple Drafts Model
Stories and Community
The Intentional Stance
Notes
4 Narratives and Consciousness
The Perils of Thinking
People and Places
The Stories of Culture
Notes
5 Darwin and Evolution
Consequences of Darwin’s Theory
Universal Darwinism
Memes, the Second Replicator
Memes and Imitation
Notes
6 Genes and Memes
Quantifying Memes
Networks and Crazes
Neuromemes
Our Mental Lives
Imitation and Language
Notes
7 Late to the Party
The Doctrine of Discovery
Another View
Outliers
Dividuals and Ubuntu
How and Why
Notes
Part II Cultural Landscapes
8 The First Tools: Language and Numbers
Media Ecology
Language
Writing
Numbers
Unpredictable Effects
Notes
9 The Nature of Tools: Conviviality
Conviviality
Middle Ages
Gunpowder and Sails
The Invention of Financial Interest
Printing
Enclosures and Cities
Electricity
Mass Media
Physical and Psychic Tools
Notes
10 Gamification: Shopping as Theatre
Training Shoppers
Reinventing Photography
Inventing the Housewife
Drinking the Image
The Gruen Transfer Effect
The Creative Housewife
Glorifying Your Cake
Notes
11 Selling Ourselves: Quantified Data
Prosumers
Gamified Prosumption
Neoliberalism
Self-surveillance
Big Data
Panopticons R Us
Notes
12 The Price of Fame: Film and Celebrity
The Grammar of Early Film
Vicarious Access
Celebrity
Mary Pickford
The Wedding
Oscar Wilde
Notes
13 Liking Our Selves: Social Media
The Publicity-Industrial Complex
Checking Your Phone
Post-worthy
“Friend”-ship
Look Ma, I’ve Become a Brand
Self-Commodification
Notes
14 Buying the Culture: IP and Creativity
Copyright
Dickens and Copyright
The Power of the Intermediaries
Censorship By Ownership
Then and Now
Bypassing the Gatekeepers
That Sounds Like My Song
Notes
Part III Making a Difference
15 Community, Citizenship, and Creativity
Community
The Language of Communities
Constitutive and Associative Communities
Society and Citizenship
Creativity
Creativity and “Art”
Notes
16 Codifying Culture
The Thirteenth Century
The Seventeenth Century
The Eighteenth Century
1948
1981
The Twenty-First Century
Community and the State
Notes
17 Cultural Democracy: A Definition
Julius Drachsler
Rachel Davis DuBois
J.A. Simpson
Community Artists
Adams and Goldbard
Cultural Policy Collective
Ismael Khatibu
Reverend Martin Luther King
Us and Them
64 Million Artists
Notes
18 Cultural Democracy and Community
Reskilling
Social Media
Going Local
Notes
19 Cultural Democracy and Economics
Jobs and Money
Royalties
Guaranteed Incomes
Universal Basic Services
Funding Creativity
Notes
20 Cultural Democracy and Politics
The Paths Forward
Professionalisation
Permissions and Licences
Media
Platforms and Data
The Earth
Notes
21 ALL Together Now
Active Awareness
Linked Together
Local First
Fear of the Unknown
Notes
Continuing …
A Final Word About Language
Notes
Index
