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“Beauty doesn’t have any meaning whatsoever.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If you go in the direction of what you think is beautiful, your life will become narrower and narrower.” — John Cage

stasis: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com

“Language is a primary element of culture, and stasis in the arts is tantamount to death” (Charles Marsh).

Gerald Raunig: Creative Industries as Mass Deception | transform.eipcp.net

Turning to the third component that involves the institutional form, in particular, it is obvious that the arrangements labeled as creative industries are no longer structured in the form of huge media corporations, but mainly as micro-enterprises of self-employed cultural entrepreneurs in the fields of new media, fashion, graphics, design, pop, conceptualized at best in clusters of these micro-enterprises. So if we ask about the institutions of the creative industries, it seems more appropriate to speak of non-institutions or pseudo-institutions. Whereas the model institutions of culture industry were huge, long-term corporations, the pseudo-institutions of creative industries prove to be temporary, ephemeral, project based.