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Original Articles

Technologies in creative economy and creative society

Pages 855-868 | Received 13 Nov 2014, Accepted 14 Mar 2015, Published online: 29 May 2015
 

Abstract

The article deals with issues of technologies in the environment of creative economy and creative society, mostly focusing on the following topics: 1) invasion of technologies, which is accompanied by technical illiteracy or simplification of intellection presupposed by a certain technique (e.g. computers); 2) new technologies emerge in the environment dominated by consumption in order to boost consumption; 3) political, media and communication technologies are intertwined to the extent that allows us to speak about the technologized society; 4) technologies are inseparable from creative activities: on the one hand, development of technologies needs creativity, on the other hand, every branch of creative industries needs certain technologies; 5) technologic development is conditioned by their syncretism, i.e. their ability to serve the art (technē) of life and creative intentions; 6) in the creative society, happiness does not depend on constantly upgraded (i.e. consumed) technologies but is rather possible in spite of them; 7) unlimitedness is the greatest limitation of global technologies: unconnected with any existential region, they billow in the wind of ever newer technologies.

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Tomas KAČERAUSKAS. Doctor, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Communication at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Chair of Lithuanian Communication Society. Author of 5 books and more than 100 scientific articles in English, German, Russian, Polish, Slovakian, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian. Research interests: creativity studies, creative and culture industries, communication studies, and borderland studies.

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