Beyond the Ruins of the Creative City: Berlin’s Factory of Culture and the Sabotage of Rent

Beyond the Ruins of the Creative City: Berlin’s Factory of Culture and the Sabotage of Rent

by Matteo Pasquinelli

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"Throughout Berlin and the whole of Europe, we are witnessing the condensation of a peculiar form of cultural capital as the leading force behind real estate and the ‘creative cities’ strategy of city councils eager to attract both investments and highly skilled workers. As a result, the real estate business, has established a perverse machinery in alliance with the art world
and cultural producers. Even if for decades the counterculture has been feeding the spectacle and culture industries with fresh ideas, for the first time, the current generation of urban subcultures have to face the immediate concrete by-products of their symbolic labour. "

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