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One can suspect that to survive and prosper in a rapidly changing world it might be useful to understand the way complexity, conflict and change are manifest in one’s (personal) environment: Complex changes in (external) conditions may require a reconsideration of one’s current organisational and belief systems in order to discover which rules are still […]

If language is the medium by which concepts are internalized and externalized, then all truly creative activity must involve linguistic-perceptual articulation: the identification, definition and construction of knowledge objects and their representations.
The above describes what I believe is the creative process, a process I sometimes describe in a triad called “knowledge, language, body.”
In this triad, […]

Below are interview questions and my replies on the subject matter of “online publishing” sent to me a few days ago by a staff member of an academic community newsletter. While I am no longer a member of the academia, I was approached more as a member of the editorial board of the Leonardo Electronic […]

1. The Myth of the Artist Genius
Despite the myth of the individual creative genius propagated by Ruskin and others, creative invention (in any field) is largely a process of adaptation and adoption -tempered by the wisdom and folly of the “zeitgeist” (the spirit of the times).
Vincent van Gogh, is now the hero of the many […]