The Creative Underground

The book teases out the difficult relationship between the individual, culture and society especially in relation to autonomy and marginality, while arguing that the creative underground is crucial for a better world, as it offers enchantment, vitality and hope.

Paul Clements is a Lecturer at several universities, including Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement (2013) also by Routledge.

1 Introducing the creative underground 2 Utopia 3 Manifestos 4 The avant-garde, autonomy and wider participation 5 Creative resistance: counterculture, subculture and counterpublics 6 Heterotopia, Bohemia and vignettes of creative underground practices 7 Work, play and a post-work scenario 8 Everyday life 9 Concluding words ....