Affective Cultural Work: New Psychogeographies of Creativity

Abstract

Despite the wilful and strategic desire on the part of many creative industries theorists to distance the contemporary world of intellectual property generation from the smaller-scale (and hence frequently dismissed as amateur or naive) production of rural, regional and remote cultural workers, many creative workers regardless seek out the kinds of ‘soft infrastructure’ that a location proximate to nature affords. Consequently, the kind of mobilities Florida so champions do not always lead to lives lived in large cities. As Charles Landry observes.

It’s on the door step… the Lake District always demands a response. You can’t live here and simply exist without responding to the weather etc., etc. (60–70-year-old female artist, Lake District)