ABSTRACT
Creativity has emerged over the past two decades as a prominent theme in business, academic, and state policy discussions. Capitalism is eminently creative. It is based on an imperative of unlimited expansion and the necessity to perpetually overcome its own internal and external limits. New outlets for profit have to be continuously found in order to ensure the generation and reinvestment of capital surpluses through forms of "creative destruction" in the opening of new markets; the geographic and institutional management of capital, labor, commodities, and information; and the integration of new models of financial innovation and investment. Autonomists have argued that over the past four decades industrial capitalism has mutated in ways that privilege intellectual and communicative forms of labor and valorization. The scholarly and activist network known as the EduFactory has insightfully argued that education has become a crucial site where the current contradictions of cognitive capitalism are expressed and mediated.
