[P2P-F] Fwd: Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City ( Richard Lloyd )

Wed Feb 12 19:24:47 CET 2014

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City (
Richard Lloyd )
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" Far from mounting resistance to capitalism in its neoliberal incarnation,
Wicker Park's neo-bohemians, precisely because they are bohemian,
contribute to its reproduction. What counts as the artist lifestyle
nowadays, Lloyd argues, has been deeply influenced by the legacy of
bohemia, and bohemia has always been associated with urban spaces. With
most artists being bohemian and all bohemians living in densely populated
urban areas, spaces like Wicker Park become home to a reserve army of labor
that the service and design industries benefit from having flexible access
to. However, Chicago's neo-bohemia does more than just concentrate an ample
source of so-called creative labor in one area. As Lloyd points out time
and again, it also fosters dispositions and attitudes particularly useful
to capitalist accumulation in its post-Fordist form. For example, like
bohemians in the past, Wicker Park's artists take pride in tolerating
material scarcity, thus constituting a pool of labor particularly well
adapted to the needs of the neighborhood's design firms, whose hiring (and
firing) fluctuates in accordance with the volume of piece work they happen
to have contracted out to them by corporate clients. "

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> ( did not watch it yet )
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> http://vimeo.com/2764835#at=0
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> http://www.civicdesigncenter.org/media/cv_episode_guide/episode-06-richard-lloyd-discusses-his-book-neobohemia-art-and-commerce-in-the-post-industrial-city.10015
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> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
> dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City
>> [image: Front Cover]
>> Richard Lloyd<http://www.google.be/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Richard+Lloyd%22>
>> Taylor & Francis, 17 May 2010 - Social Science<http://www.google.be/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Social+Science%22&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0>
>>  - 314 pages
>>
>> Neo-Bohemia brings the study of bohemian culture down to the street
>> level, while maintaining a commitment to understanding broader historical
>> and economic urban contexts. Simultaneously readable and academic, this
>> book anticipates key urban trends at the dawn of the twenty-first century,
>> shedding light on both the nature of contemporary bohemias and the cities
>> that house them. The relevance of understanding the trends it depicts has
>> only increased, especially in light of the current urban crisis puncturing
>> a long period of gentrification and new economy development, putting us on
>> the precipice, perhaps, of the next new bohemia.
>>
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>

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