Culture, Consumption and Economics of Creativity: Philosophical, Sociological and Communicative Aspects

Abstract

The article gives a review of the scientific conference ‘Culture, Consumption and Economics of Creativity: Philosophical, Sociological and Communicative Aspects’ held at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The text represents the course of the conference, the main thoughts of speakers, and some moments of discussion. Main topics analysed by the speakers of the conference were the following: consumption and creative society, consumer culture, creative industries and economics of creativity, social partnership in creative clusters, relationship between politics and culture, dialectics of culture and consumption, relationship between culture and economy, contradictions between creativity and economic sustainability; relations between capitalism, rationality and secularization; quarantgressions of frontiers of public and private, culture of consumption under conditions of pandemic coronavirus, the consumption of virtual culture and other.