
The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History

As the expression of ideas becomes exponentially easier, the ideas themselves become more of the differentiator (yes, I think “Prompt Engineering” will become a discipline in and of itself!). Good ideas aren’t derived solely from logic and patterns of the past; they’re also the product of human traumas, mistakes of the eye, and uniquely human inge
... See moreScott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
... See moreRichard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
Even among people who work within the ‘creative industries’, their imagination seems increasingly harnessed to create demand for things nobody really needs, whose production is increasingly pushing our human and ecological systems to the brink of collapse – almost as if imagination has been coopted in the service of our own extinction.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Contemporary capitalism has commandeered creativity to ensure its own growth and maintain the centralization and monetization of what it generates.’17 (As Ursula Le Guin once wrote, ‘In the market place, the word creativity has come to mean the generation of ideas applicable to practical strategies to make larger profits. This reduction has gone on
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