Linked with Policies for Cultural Creativity, and with The Future of the Privatization of Culture.
He says: ”… The thesis I propose here derives from the fact that when we speak of the privatization of culture today, this is not the same as the process of fifty or even twenty years ago. We can no longer speak of the dichotomy of the public and the private, or, to use the terms that frame that opposition, the State and the market. Nor can we characterize the issue before us as the conflict between the creativity of art and its commercialization, which gave rise to many of the agonies suffered by artists and writers from Balzac and Baudelaire to the happenings, performance, and installation artists working outside of commercial circuits, or who subvert commercialization through irreverence and other challenges. At this turn of the century, the debate on the privatization of culture is part of the struggle to shape the epochal transformation that the concept of modernity is undergoing » … (more on nyu.edu).
Go to his 20 books on amazon.
Nestor Garcia Canclini – Mexico
Néstor García Canclini is born in Argentina in 1939, he studied letters in 1975 in the National University of the Silver and, three years later, with a scholarship granted by the Conicet, doctor in the University of Paris. It exerted teaching in the University of the Silver (1966-1975). He is an anthropologist and head of the programme of studies in urban culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.