[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

[Simon Biggs]

This is a fascinating question:

> From: Kevin Hamilton <kham at uiuc.edu>
> 
> So how do we attend to creativity's ontology as a condition of being social,
> without ending up with just another form of instrumentalized "freedom?"

This opens up all the doors into transculturalist and pluriliterate
arguments that propose a less homogeneous understanding of the social.

> "The pinnacle of artistic creation is achieved when the spontaneity and
> inventiveness of the fantasy-stream are so fused with knowledge of the
> regularities of the material and the judgement of the artist¹s conscience that
> the innovative fantasies emerge as if by themselves in a way that matches the
> demands of both material and conscience. This is one of the most socially
> fruitful types of sublimation process."
> 
> I love this description because it accounts for fantasy/desire, the limits of
> perception, and the fact that the material into which we work is just more
> regular than we are. Translate this into a discussion of group creativity, and
> things get very interesting.

Taking this idea of individual sublimation and considering how this dynamic
might work in heterogeneous social contexts between people we can ask how we
learn to use our languages, our means of expression, across human languages,
media forms, scripts and materialities, and learn to be ourselves
(pluriliteracy as an ontology)? Perhaps the manner in which we sublimate
difference is as much about fear as desire?

Best

Simon


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