[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

[helen varley jamieson]

>> why are social networks, or facebooks or twitters
>> considered community building in a creative/artistic sense,
>> after babel or not?  is the creative here always
>> associated with the artistic, and then what "artistic"
>> terms are meant?
>
> I don't think we can consider all kinds of social networks as being
>community builders. There are many different kinds of networks. The
>very traits (even technical specifications) of these networks create
>basic conditions which favor (or inhibit) the creation of a community.
>I think Davin put it right when he talked about desires and the
>necessity of conflict in order to characterize a community: it's not
>simply a group of people gathered together in a physical or virtual
>space.
>
>

i agree with eugenio that there are very many different kinds of 
networks, some community-building in a creative/artistic sense & others 
not. & it's important to look at who it is who is claiming this role - 
often it's a stakeholder in the social network who is employing the 
current buzz-words.

maybe it's useful to ask why creative/artist community building is such 
a trendy thing to claim or aspire to at the moment; this brings us back 
to desire - the human desire to want to be part of a social community. 
some of our traditional forms of community have broken down or become 
less sustainable/satisfactory & so people are seeking a sense of 
community elsewhere.

h : )
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