The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Artists recontextualize reality and offer visions that were previously invisible.
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
while we might not all be artists, there is much we can learn from them about dealing with the ambiguity, complexity and unknowability of life today.
Again, naysayers, of course. Are you seriously saying that the chaos and tumult of today can be solved by artists? Well, no, not really; I am arguing that, while not all of us should or could become ar... See more
Again, naysayers, of course. Are you seriously saying that the chaos and tumult of today can be solved by artists? Well, no, not really; I am arguing that, while not all of us should or could become ar... See more
Uncertainty Demands Imagination
The arts play a role in amplifying social imagination that is tangential rather than head on, opening up thought rather than offering visions of a future that then materialises.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more
Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
The artist, in other words, was a model of creativity, and the benefit of the artistic way of being was not art itself but something else. There was something paradoxical about this: It held art apart from the ordinary, the commercial, the technological. Yet it promoted art not for its own sake—that is, say, for the production of aesthetic objects—
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