http://qz.com/584850/creative-peoples-brains-really-do-work-differently/ ”Perhaps this is why creative people are so difficult to pin down. In both their creative processes and their brain processes, they bring seemingly contradictory elements together in unusual and unexpected ways.”

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n02/stefan-collini/who-are-the-spongers-now?utm_content=buffer2ef2a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer”It is the application of this model to universities that produces the curious spectacle of a right-wing government championing students. Traditionally, of course, students have been understood by such governments, at least from the 1960s onwards, as part of the problem. They ‘sponged off’ society when they weren’t ‘disrupting’ it. But now, students have come to be regarded as a disruptive force in a different sense, the shock-troops of market forces, storming those bastions of pre-commercial values, the universities.”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/autonomy-negation-space-leap-avant-garde ”Marxist writing about the commodity status of artworks. Dave Beech and Daniel Spaulding, inter alia, have recently argued that unlike commodities, artworks are not anonymously produced for an anonymous market, and, most importantly, that there is no correlation between the amount of time necessary to produce an art object and its market price. Roberts implies that the first negation would be of the art market — meaning things like social practice and performance art that do not end up in collectors’ storage units.”