talks
on creativity and the mythic return to origins University of Dallas, September 2019
Language embodies imagination
Language embodies imagination; its diastole and systole, its expansion and constriction. Our proclivity for constricting imagination by turning everything into literal noun-things lives in grammar. To see how this plays out, let’s track how the phrase ‘the unconscious’ can open to imagination or turn what began as an experience into a thing. Some emerging psychological …
where does our creativity come from?
Let’s say you invest yourself in a task that calls for some resourcefulness. You run into an impasse. Working more and working harder get you nowhere. You concede the futility of more of the same and admit you lack some unknown something to move forward. You try to let it go for a while. You …