[ATHENA] Hypertextes / Lectures du CIS avec Michael L. Siciliano, 17 mars 2022, 17h à 18h

[Céline Vaslin <celine.vaslin AT cnrs.fr>]

    Bonjour,
    
    Hypertextes, atelier de lectures du Centre Internet et Société,
    reçoit Michael L. Siciliano, le 17 mars 2022, de 17h
    à 18h, pour une séance en visioconférence et en anglais, portant sur
    son ouvrage Creative
          Control (Columbia University Press, 2021).
    
    Présentation : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-11-michael-siciliano/
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Creative Control
The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries

    Workers in cultural industries often say that the best part of their
    job is the opportunity for creativity. At the same time,
    profit-minded managers at both traditional firms and digital
    platforms exhort workers to “be creative”. Even as cultural fields
    hold out the prospect of meaningful employment, they are marked by
    heightened economic precarity. What does it mean to be creative
    under contemporary capitalism? And how does the ideology of
    creativity explain workers’ commitment to precarious jobs?
    
    Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic
    research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and
    a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of
    creative work. He details how such workplaces feature engaging,
    dynamic processes that enlist workers in organizational projects and
    secure their affective investment in ideas of creativity and
    innovation. Siciliano argues that performing creative labor entails
    a profound ambivalence: workers experience excitement and aesthetic
    engagement alongside precarity and alienation. Through close
    comparative analysis, he presents a theory of creative labor that
    accounts for the roles of embodiment, power, alienation, and
    technology in the contemporary workplace.
    
    Combining vivid ethnographic detail and keen sociological insight, Creative
      Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how
    workers can participate in their own exploitation.
    
    Michael L. Siciliano
    is assistant professor of sociology at Queen’s University (Kingston,
    Canada).

Bien cordialement,

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