CULTURAL RIGHTS, CULTURAL ECONOMY AND MORE THAN

Abstract

In this article we try to elaborate and cross topics that are not in direct relation at the first glance. We feel no guilt because of that, because the time we live in today does not allow narrow, one dimensional and none critical deliberation of reality. In the beginning, elaborating the terms of culture, culture and human rights, in terms of the highest order of general meaning, and in the frame of further analysis of subsidiary terms, we have concluded that there a lot of inconsistencies and dilemmas about their definitions, but also about certain difficulties in their application in everyday life, in creation of cultural and other public politics. Furthermore, we moved on to some specific derived terms such as culture/creative industry. By analyzing the terms of creativity, industry and economy, we have concluded that it is impossible to consistently epistemologically determine the content and the scope of the term creative economy/industry. Creativity may refer to every professional activity which requires complex skills and intelligent procedures, while the term industry/industrialism, which speaks in market categories, reduces cultural values strictly to economic metrics. As a possible explanation, the solution we suggest is the term of cultural economy, which refers to intersection of cultural and economic values trough whole set of practices and institutions involved in cultural production. For illustration, we have intentionally specified blockchain technologies because it really demands major intellectual effort, creativity and open minded approach to comprehend the enormous impact that this technology may have on society in global. This technology by far surpasses the expectations associated with creative industry, by means of economic potentials, and also by the space it opens for creative actions in the widest of meaning and importance for overall society development.