Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human.
Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change..
Culture is not an industry argues that art and Culture need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future.
This book is about what happens when an essential part of our democratic citizenship, fundamental to our human rights, is reduced to an industry.
At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, Culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production.
Where does that leave art and Culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, Culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers.
But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and Culture as \'creative industries\', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human
