Wallis, M and McKinney, JE (2013) On value and necessity: The Green Book and its others. Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 18 (2). 67 - 79. ISSN 1352-8165
Abstract
This article examines entrenched debates around cultural value in neo-liberal contexts that have predominated over the last three decades; and moves on to examine how proposals for different forms of social and political structure suggest both alternative ecologies of value and a role for performance in designing them. We establish a broad frame for discussion of questions of value and culture by looking first at the current debate in the UK neo-liberal state, as exemplified by HM Treasury and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and then turn to what Baudrillard has to say about the State, general equivalence and modernity's adversarial union with Death. In traversing that range, we examine discussions of the evaluation of culture from a policy perspective alongside another set of discussions which address forms of resistance to global capitalism through ‘commonalism’ and social production. Finally, we take in both the pragmatics and the theoretical underpinnings of the left alternative scoped by Roberto Unger to see how ‘institutional contexts permanently open to their own revision’ might both support and depend on collaborative creative practices and sustain an alternative ecology of cultural value.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2013, Taylor and Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts on 14th June 2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13528165.2013.807170 |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2014 08:58 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2015 17:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2013.807170 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13528165.2013.807170 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:79786 |