Noted leaders and creative practitioners gather for a daylong exploration
of radical creativity inspired by the ideas, practice, and content in the work of Chicago - based visual artist Kerry James Marshall.
SYMPOSIUM: Coinciding with Kerry James Marshall «s «Mastry» exhibition, «noted thought leaders and creative practitioners gather for a daylong exploration
of radical creativity inspired by the ideas, practice, and content in the work» of Chicago - based Marshall.
Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation
of radical creativity and the need for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).
Since my purpose is not to offer a study of Peirce's thesis, but rather to indicate the significance of his insight, I shall illustrate his recognition
of radical creativity with only a few references.
On the cosmic scale, Peirce's agapism in part accommodates the characterization
of radical creativity suggested earlier.
Further, in using the term «possible,» I want to emphasize the point that whatever conditions are relevant to creative acts, these conditions are not guarantees, but at best are necessary if not sufficient for occurrences
of radical creativity.
Not exact matches
But as we understand Whitehead, the passage from the indeterminacy
of the initial phases
of concrescence, through the intermediate phases to the final phase, satisfaction, is a process which concretizes or actualizes the occasion itself, and the occasion is not actual until the process is complete.9 If so, the indeterminacy
of the earlier phases
of concrescence is a
radical or absolute indeterminacy inconsistent with the passage
of time, for there is nothing as yet actual for which time could pass; thus, concrescence is a process in a metaphorical or figurative sense, and this is why Whitehead associates concrescence with
creativity, calling
creativity the Category
of the Ultimate, meaning that though it is used to explain all else, it is not explicable.
Sometimes, people overthink things and yet with such little
creativity - the truth
of who Jesus (incarnate God) is far more
radical than anything Crossan could up with.
This kind
of creative growth includes what I refer to as «
radical creativity.»
Growing numbers
of theologians are consciously adopting the thesis
of radical human
creativity to the extent that the difference between religious humanism and such theists as Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Novak and Duméry is not as great as we may think.
While evil is not
radical, if by that is intended «at the root
of things» — for it can not be, if God is love and is Himself «at the root
of things» through His
creativity at work in them — it is most certainly not to be dismissed or minimized or talked away.
There is a
radical and evident contingency about the existence
of new units
of creativity (actual entities) that is not characteristic
of new forms
of prime matter.
Because
of each actual entity's deep particularity and self - determination, we may say that its exercise
of creativity - characterization resembles slightly, but only slightly, God's
radical power
of creatio ex nihilo.
As such it is always subject to errors that can be controlled but not governed entirely by practical and / or socially established evaluative or critical methods.18 The indispensable factor
of interpretation in the dynamic processes
of semiosis even leads to the idea that there is a generic form
of imagination in physical becoming, in addition to a primary or
radical form in human perception, a consideration that would indeed justify calling
creativity the category
of the ultimate, just as Whitehead maintains.
All this affects in a
radical sense the meaning
of creativity.
Thus, without the
radical novelty
of creativity - esse, the creatures production
of new characterizations would remain purely abstract and hypothetical, unrelated to any event in the world.
In Section 1, I noted the closely related argument, common among process thinkers, that the separation
of God and
creativity results in improvements in theodicy because it establishes a
radical freedom for the creatures, where God does not create the creatures» particular decisions.
I will argue that the separation
of creativity and God can not be considered well - established until that
radical question has been raised.
Rather,
creativity - esse produces the most
radical and fundamental
of all novelties, the novelty
of creativity / esse / activity / being / act.
The replacement
of Aristotelian «matter» with Whiteheadian «
creativity,» and the consequent precedence given by the key concept
of prehension to the relational over every merely qualitative determination
of a being, undoubtedly allows the Whiteheadian [actual] entity to embody process in a more
radical sense than does being as conceived by Aristotle.
Ultimately, it is only by successfully marrying
radical food innovation and production, with unparalleled brand design and
creativity, that we can create a real opportunity for a new generation
of food and drink producers, brands, products and services and a truly tasty future for their increasingly educated consumers.
The BBVA Foundation established its Frontiers
of Knowledge Awards in 2008 to recognize the authors
of outstanding contributions and
radical advances in a broad range
of scientific and technological areas congruent with the knowledge map
of the late 20th and 21st centuries and, representing cultural
creativity at its expressive height, the area
of music.
Cultivate your ««feeling function» through spiritual practice, therapy,
radical self - care, yoga, breathwork, extended periods
of silence, contemplation and
creativity.
We teach a
radical new approach to woman's health and wellbeing;
creativity and leadership; and spiritual life based on the power
of our menstruality consciousness.
And in the face
of that time
of radical change, we will need
creativity and optimism to get us through.
The most
radical and transformative
of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their
creativity — to pursue their dreams.
Growing up in Brooklyn in the sixties, and influenced by the
creativity of the music and the
radical social changes taking place, his inspiration are characters striving to juggle life's demands while struggling, as Faulkner said, with a heart in conflict with itself.
Baker writes: «Drawing a connection between the redrawing
of political borders and the subsequent exchange
of ideas among previously alienated artists, the exhibition theorizes that the surge
of creativity in the 1920s and 30s could have been a direct response to the mingling
of Russian Constructivists (who migrated west due to the increasingly conservative Soviet policies against the avant garde) and the
radical Dutch conceptualists they encountered.
As much as Rauschenberg's work
of the early 1950s had been championed for its elimination
of painterly conventions — no subject, no image, no taste, no object, no beauty, no message — Untitled [glossy black painting] makes the case that Rauschenberg was equally
radical for what he was willing to let in — chance, duration, changing context, accidents, a life in the present.18 Historians tell us about the Rauschenberg who pursued a mode
of creativity that had «a life beyond its initial conception,» but it is not always possible to observe the process
of accretion.19 In 1986, Untitled [glossy black painting] would appear on the cover
of Arts Magazine, its identity photographically stilled.20 That was part
of the history
of this single canvas.
This unique annual event draws hundreds
of young people from throughout the region for an evening
of radical acceptance, fun, and
creativity.
To commemorate the re-release, The New Yorker remarked, «the free, ardent, spontaneous
creativity of «Born in Flames» emerges as an indispensable mode
of radical change — one that many contemporary filmmakers with political intentions have yet to assimilate.»
By simply reminding people that things do not have to be the way they are,
radical ideas help generate
creativity and expand the realm
of the possible.
We teach a
radical new approach to woman's health and wellbeing;
creativity and leadership; and spiritual life based on the power
of our menstruality consciousness.