Abstract
Recurrent, most recently Western-Modern-Romantic, ideologies conceptualise creativity as the solitary, ex nihilo creation of products of self-evident and universal value by highly exceptional individuals. These ideologies have had a tremendous impact beyond the context and time of which they were the product. They have naturalised a number of binary oppositions such as creativity/imitation, creativity/ routinisation, and creativity/reproduction, often superimposed on other binary oppositions such as modernity/tradition and the west/the rest, respectively. These ideologies have thus contributed to the production and reproduction of different forms of social hierarchy, and also hindered a deeper understanding of creative agency. Against this backdrop, this chapter theorises the potential of boredom, imitation and digitisation to problematise Western-Modern-Romantic discourses and practices of creativity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 39-50 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040775929 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781041176350 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jan 2025 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- creativity
- cultural variety
- ideology
- social hierarchy