CRI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homo Economicus, Middle Ages
2 Apr 2016
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Creaivity and commerce from the middle ages to silicon valley; a historical, dynamic relaionship. Culture = power & power shapes the creaion of culture; Arists, capitalism the legacy of the enlightenment: between realism and romanicism. Finding the middle ground between an aestheic man and economic man. Book breaks it down into romanics" and realists . Romanics: hold a separate, scared place for the arts, where money does not interfere. Realists: money plays an important role in the arts the economic realm is an integral part of the world of the arts, see arists as workers, people who aspire to have a standard of living. Forms of power (thompson, john 1995: 1. Poliical power: insituions and pracices concerned with coordinaion and regulaion: 2. Economic power: ability to control producion, distribuion, prices, markets, work etc: 3. Coercive power: wield the threat of force: 4. Symbolic and cultural power: ability to inluence the recepion of symbolic forms.
