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The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea Paperback / softback -

by Shannon Steen

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Paperback / softback. New. Traces the history of how creativity has come to mean the things it now does, and explores the ethical implications of how we use this term today for both the arts and for the social world more broadly.
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  • Title The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea
  • Author Shannon Steen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 258
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Michigan Press
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780472056279
  • ISBN 9780472056279 / 0472056271
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethics, Technology - Moral and ethical aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023007021
  • Dewey Decimal Code 170
  • Quantity available 10

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Reader reviews for The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

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"Creativity" is a word that excites and dazzles us. It promises brilliance and achievement, a shield against conformity, a channel for innovation across the arts, sciences, technology, and education, and a mechanism for economic revival and personal success. But it has not always evoked these ideas. The Creativity Complex traces the history of how creativity has come to mean the things it now does, and explores the ethical implications of how we use this term today for both the arts and for the social world more broadly. Richly researched, the book explores how creativity has been invoked in arenas as varied as Enlightenment debates over the nature of cognition, Victorian-era intelligence research, the Cold War technology race, contemporary K-12 education, and even modern electoral politics. Ultimately, The Creativity Complex asks how our ideas about creativity are bound up with those of self-fulfillment, responsibility, and the individual, and how these might seduce us into joining a worldview and even a set of social imperatives that we might otherwise find troubling.

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2024, Page 0

About the author

Shannon Steen is Associate Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and American Studies at UC Berkeley.

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