Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Saturday, 19 February 2011

Creativity as Struggle...


Pope 2008 offers an wide ranging discussion of creativity in the context of Capitalism, he quotes Williams 1977  who in Marxism and Literature : refers to creativity as "a struggle of self-creation  with internalized contradictions, it can be a long and difficult struggle of an inherited (determined) practical consciousness.. a struggle at the roots of the mind...not casting off an ideology... but  confronting a hegemony in the fibres of the self and in  the hard practical substance of effective and continuing relationship"(1977:212) 
This gets close... 
Pope (2005) provides an extensive  discussion of the field of creativity from a similar perspective . He addresses the issue of the concept of  "creativity"  being " appropriated by information technology, communications and advertising (p6 2005)  and hence being limited to particular limited forms acceptable to capitalism, the other 'less acceptable' forms being: Philosophy Deleuze (1991), Art, and "Self-Creation" in an existensial sense (Heidigger)  marginalized (ref) , although perhaps the  term "abnormalized" is more descriptive (at least they are considered the super structure of artistic whim to the structure of capital responsibility). Pope refers to the relation between Production (and Reproduction) and Creativity as  binary opposition that can be deconstructed,  pointing to the privileging of production/reproduction over creativity. (Add Benjamin W) 

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