what constitutes the creative animal, as it were, of todays modern age. What are it's qualities? We have opened the door to new forms of creativity, creating works without use-value. — kudos
? Is it a form of slavery to put creative work into something to the benefit of someone else? — kudos
Creative work takes great time and effort to produce for the most part. — kudos
what constitutes the creative animal, as it were, of todays modern age. What are it's qualities? — kudos
We have opened the door to new forms of creativity, creating works without use-value. — kudos
The creativity of today is both against monetization, but also ascribes virulently to a lottery system of value. Large web-front companies make money of the creative labours of the masses, but what drives us to do it? Are we still driven to do it? Is it a form of slavery to put creative work into something to the benefit of someone else? Does this mean that creativity must be devoid of 'work'? — kudos
I could see in your choice of wording you may not being paying attention to the process of producing art - the creative process - which is a little confusing for me. Maybe I just misunderstood the focus of your OP? — I like sushi
As someone who does creative work for a living, working with lots of other creative folks, and who has done that for decades... — Terrapin Station
You're basically rearranging things and seeing what happens when you "put this there" and "try removing this from here" etc. — Terrapin Station
This account seems to assume that the necessary 'parts' are already available, and only their arrangement, relative to one another, remains to be done. This is much less than the creativity of taking a problem - a problem which has not previously been solved, or we'd use the existing solution - and creating a solution. — Pattern-chaser
I'd like to take the opportunity here to discuss the philosophy of creativity. No, I don't mean whether something classifies as art or not, but rather what constitutes the creative animal, as it were, of todays modern age. What are it's qualities? We have opened the door to new forms of creativity, creating works without use-value. The creativity of today is both against monetization, but also ascribes virulently to a lottery system of value. Large web-front companies make money of the creative labours of the masses, but what drives us to do it? Are we still driven to do it? Is it a form of slavery to put creative work into something to the benefit of someone else? Does this mean that creativity must be devoid of 'work'? I ask for your thoughts... — kudos
I don't know enough about programming to mention what would make sense as parts, but it would be something similar--some sort of cache of unique command words for the coding language in question, some cache of logical statements with particular syntax, etc.
If you're needing to solve a particular problem, yeah, that also requires that you rearrange the stuff you're rearranging in a way that it has a pretty specific result . . . — Terrapin Station
IME, design involves much more than rearrangement of existing building blocks. Often (usually), the building blocks themselves must be designed and implemented before they can be used in the main project. — Pattern-chaser
Large web-front companies make money of the creative labours of the masses, but what drives us to do it? — kudos
I’m glad you brought up the creative impulse or instinct. In my world these are two separate entities. The second is more difficult to account for, because we can’t really prove right now that creativity is instinctual. Other animals don’t seem to do it so much in the form we see it in humans. If it were true, what would be the benefit to them to do so? We must be talking about apes, chimpanzees, and other primates. — kudos
Would you expect chimp 1 to give away his stick that he worked for, simply for love of creating sticks? — kudos
Putting creative (uniquely personal) work into something for the benefit of others is precisely what drives creativity in the first place. It is a selfless act at its core. — Possibility
My feeling is that all creative acts have ‘use-value’. In a world of survival no ‘use-value’ means death. — Brett
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