The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
The artist picks up the message of cultural and technological challenge decades before its transforming impact occurs.
Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press
More to the point, what works of inspired genius might we be losing right now, at a moment when we’re in dire need of as much inspired genius as we can summon? As Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts it, ‘we are forever elsewhere.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
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
Like our own imagination, art can wander off, seeking out the edges, the borderlands, the mysteries. Indeed, this autonomy is art’s power and part of its emotional appeal. But this very ability to separate from everyday material life may also make art impotent in trying to shape the world from which it has escaped. At most it can be a nudge or a su
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