As you can see there are many different levels at which an individual is affected by these factors, and Paul Miller is mainly talking about culture in his book, saying that we need this to reflect in our creativity to allow others to relate to us. Just take a minute to think about how each of these factors above plays into your life....how have each shaped you? How would, for instance, your parents' job choices have an impact on your creativity?
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Rythm Science
First of all, props to all the presenters this week, this book is hard to understand at points. In class on Wednesday we discussed a little what this idea of the influences of culture means to creativity. I guess I did not stop at this point in the book, simply because of my Human Development major background. There is a theory by Bronfenbrenner called the "Ecological Systems Theory" that explains how a person's life and personality (and therefore also their creativity) is created through the world around them. Below is a model of this theory. As you can see, there are many factors that influence who we all turn out to be, and of course this differs between people. As you can see there are many different levels at which an individual is affected by these factors, and Paul Miller is mainly talking about culture in his book, saying that we need this to reflect in our creativity to allow others to relate to us. Just take a minute to think about how each of these factors above plays into your life....how have each shaped you? How would, for instance, your parents' job choices have an impact on your creativity?
As you can see there are many different levels at which an individual is affected by these factors, and Paul Miller is mainly talking about culture in his book, saying that we need this to reflect in our creativity to allow others to relate to us. Just take a minute to think about how each of these factors above plays into your life....how have each shaped you? How would, for instance, your parents' job choices have an impact on your creativity?
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I think it makes sense to acknowledge the impact of the environment. Spooky seems to relish those moments when he breaks out of its authoritative influence (let homeless strangers wander around his home). He also seems to get a charge from the clash of the environments (the Japanese concert, for instance). I think a big part of it is internal potential though too. Whether or not it flourishes is a different question, but what's in you has to play a big part of seeing.
Very nice connection. I agree with Andy that Miller seems to relish moments when the expected gets confused, shattered, upended. He also, however, suggests that those forces that have a hand in determining our identities (such as the ones detailed on your chart) might not be as bad as we make them out to be. At certain points, he wants us to embrace the blurring of the organic and inorganic (human and machine) that's characteristic of today's info economy. What he wants to avoid, however, is an uncritical absortion of these forces--like samplers, we're constrained to great extent by external determinants, and yet we have some flexibility when it comes to their arrangment and emphasis.
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