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SUMMARY:Tom Frank
DESCRIPTION:City Lights & Penguin Press celebrate the publication of THE 
 CREATIVITY CON: How Innovation Became America’s Biggest Racket By Tom Fr
 ank Published by Penguin Press A bold indictment of America’s chronic ob
 session with creativity and innovation\, tracing how these beloved ideas
  came to dominate our political and economic conversation while serving 
 to mask inequality and protect elite interests “Innovation” and “creativ
 ity” have been the defining watchwords of American exceptionalism for de
 cades. They’re deployed by business leaders\, tech gurus\, military stra
 tegists\, educators\, and urban planners to describe our unique standing
  in the world. While other countries supposedly suffer from regimentatio
 n and a fatal lack of imagination\, the United States is often portrayed
  as an unmatched dynamo of new ideas and products. In The Creativity Con
 \, Thomas Frank disabuses us of this notion\, offering a provocative acc
 ount of the way creativity and innovation have been used as a kind of id
 eological cover for policies that reinforce the class system. Frank char
 ts the construction of America’s glamorous self-image from Sputnik to Si
 licon Valley\, Apple to Lockheed Martin\, Madison Avenue to Main Street\
 , Richard Florida to Donald Trump. He deconstructs the innovation agenda
 s touted by politicians\; reads pop psychology\; tours SXSW\, the mecca 
 of creativity\, where musicians mingle with Pentagon officials\; and loo
 ks in on the cafés\, sidewalk murals\, and bike lanes that populate the 
 neighborhoods built for the creative class. Along the way\, Frank uncove
 rs the insidious effects of centering innovation and creativity in our r
 hetoric while\, in practice\, nurturing exactly the opposite. He shows h
 ow\, in the name of these noble goals\, our leaders have reoriented the 
 American economy around white-collar knowledge work\, cut taxes for the 
 wealthy\, deregulated banks\, offshored manufacturing\, reoriented citie
 s\, and destroyed what is truly creative about this country. Deeply orig
 inal\, marked by Frank’s signature brilliance and acerbic wit\, The Crea
 tivity Co n is a troubling X-ray of postwar American business and politi
 cal culture—and a crushing indictment of the clichés that have undergird
 ed its many failures. Thomas Frank is the bestselling author of What’s t
 he Matter With Kansas?\; Listen\, Liberal\; The People\, No\; amongst ot
 her books. Frank is a founding editor of The Baffler\, a former columnis
 t for The Wall Street Journal\, and has written regularly for Harper’s\,
  The Guardian\, and Le Monde Diplomatique. He lives outside Washington\,
  DC. This event made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation
 \n\nTickets: https://citylights.com/events/tom-frank/\n\nhttps://findloc
 al.community/event/1a89dc31-5a33-4a35-afb0-2703e0896f52
LOCATION:CCSF North Beach / Chinatown Bookstore\, CA
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/1a89dc31-5a33-4a35-afb0-2703e0896f5
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