The creativity complex : art, tech, and the seduction of an idea /

Richly researched, the book explores how creativity has been invoked in arenas as varied as Enlightenment debates over the nature of the cognition, Victorian-era intelligence research, the Cold War technology race, contemporary education and even modern electoral politics. Along the way, the book tu...

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Main Author: Steen, Shannon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2023].
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505 0 |t Introduction: the creativity complex --  |t How we all became creative --  |t The creative society: Reagan and the California crusade --  |t Creativity and the classroom: maker education and labor precarity --  |t Discarded creativity: libertarian mythologizing and steampunk nostalgia --  |t Creativity's monsters: Frankenstein, self-fulfillment, and the art/tech interface --  |t Creative futures: the Pacific century, the creative century --  |t Epilogue: from the ruins, reconstructing creativity. 
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