Anxious Creativity
Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems univers...
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Taylor & Francis
2023
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| description | Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems universally desired but insufficiently possessed. Businesses likewise see innovation as essential to productivity and growth, but can’t bring themselves to risk new ideas. Even as one’s "inner artist" is hyped by a booming self-help industry, creative education dwindles in U.S. schools. Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails examines this conceptual mess, while focusing on how America’s current edginess dampens creativity in everyone. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Anxious Creativity draws on current ideas in the social sciences, economics, and the arts. Discussion centers on the knotty problem of reconciling the expressive potential in all people with the nation’s tendency to reward only a few. Fortunately, there is some good news, as scientists, economists, and creative professionals have begun advocating new ways of sharing and collaboration. Building on these prospects, the book argues that America’s innovation crisis demands a rethinking of individualism, competition, and the ways creativity is rewarded. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1218692025-03-20T23:20:58Z Anxious Creativity Trend, David Culture Industry competition consumer culture creative economies Identity imagination individualism innovation Neoliberalism Originality Popular Culture Postmodernism possessive individualism social interaction social knowledge social psychology Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems universally desired but insufficiently possessed. Businesses likewise see innovation as essential to productivity and growth, but can’t bring themselves to risk new ideas. Even as one’s "inner artist" is hyped by a booming self-help industry, creative education dwindles in U.S. schools. Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails examines this conceptual mess, while focusing on how America’s current edginess dampens creativity in everyone. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Anxious Creativity draws on current ideas in the social sciences, economics, and the arts. Discussion centers on the knotty problem of reconciling the expressive potential in all people with the nation’s tendency to reward only a few. Fortunately, there is some good news, as scientists, economists, and creative professionals have begun advocating new ways of sharing and collaboration. Building on these prospects, the book argues that America’s innovation crisis demands a rethinking of individualism, competition, and the ways creativity is rewarded. 2023-11-17T08:51:02Z 2023-11-17T08:51:02Z 2023-09-26T15:00:31Z 2020 book ONIX_20230926_9781000650112_30 OCN: 1117627287 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76412 9781000650112 9780367275068 9780429296437 9780367275099 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121869 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76412/1/9781000650112.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76412/1/9781000650112.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76412/1/9781000650112.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76412/1/9781000650112.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429296437 10.4324/9780429296437 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781000650112 9780367275068 9780429296437 9780367275099 Routledge 334 open access |
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