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Collective creativity : collaborative work in the sciences, literature and the arts
Collective Creativity combines complex and ambivalent concepts. While 'creativity' is currently experiencing an inflationary boom in popularity, the term 'collective' appeared, until recently, rather controversial due to its ideological implications in twentieth-century politics. In a world defined by global cultural practice, the notion of collectivity has gained new relevance. This publication discusses a number of concepts of creativity and shows that, in opposition to the traditional ideal of the individual as creative genius, cultural theorists today emphasize the collaborative nature of creativity; they show that 'creativity makes alterity, discontinuity and difference attractive'. Not the Romantic Originalgenie, but rather the agents of the 'creative economy' appear as the new avant-garde of aesthetic innovation: teams, groups and collectives in business and science, in art and digital media who work together in networking clusters to develop innovative products and processes. In this book, scholars in the social sciences and in cultural and media studies, in literature, theatre and visual arts present for the first time a comprehensive, inter- and transdisciplinary account of collective creativity in its multifaceted applications. They investigate the intersections of artistic, scientific and cultural practice where the individual and the collective merge, come together or confront each other.
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Geschichte machen und Geschichten schreiben: Gedanken zu Volker Brauns \Unvollendeter Geschichte\
In his Unvollendete Geschichte (1974) the East German author, Volker Braun, takes up a theme central to the reality of life in the GDR, namely, the contradiction between the individual pursuit of happiness and the social norm. This contradiction is concretized-breaking out of the external framework of lovestory and generation conflict-in the metaphor of the split: the division of GDR society into top and bottom, the separation of official-political and individualprivate life, the divided loyalties of individual people, and finally the division of Germany into two states. In contrast, the communist utopia of a free, equal, sensitive people is anticipated by Braun in the form of a dream. The correspondence between the organization of the aesthetic material (comparison with Kleist) and the posing of the thematic problem as manifest in the multivalent meaning of the term \"Geschichte\" make Braun's text, based on his operative literary theory, a typical example of the attempts during the 1970's at a new way of writing in the literature of the GDR.
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