[-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

[Simon Biggs]

As I suggested in my earlier post today, which Kriss picked up on, I am
looking at agency and creativity from an autopoietic point of view. I am not
seeking to situate agency in the individual but in the collective and,
specifically, in the in-between. This could be considered a "gathering",
although this suggests a sense of common purpose, individuals recognising
they can enhance their capacity to act, to bring themselves and the world
into being, through collective action. That isn't what I am trying to get
at. Of course, I am wearing my artists hat when I suggest this and am not
really equipped to defend what is possibly an indefensible position.
Nevertheless, I think it is an interesting line of thought.

Best

Simon


Simon Biggs
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Research Professor  edinburgh college of art
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Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
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Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
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Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts


> From: James Leach <james.leach at abdn.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:02:33 +0100
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to
> create / the social beyond the mechanisim?
> 
> But Simon, you also are keen to explore the emergent possibility, to actually
> look at what is made visible in emerging digital networked forms that is not
> visible in previous ways of working?
> 
> What is being gathered? what are the constraints on those gatherings? and what
> is created through them - ie, what changes because of them? 



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