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New book out: "Creativity" (Reflections Series)

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A short but engaging exploration of our changing perception of creativity. Creativity was once seen as the mark of mad geniuses, troubled souls, and avant-garde eccentrics. Today, however, we expect to find the trait thriving in and around us. Why? In Creativity, Jan Løhmann Stephensen provides a historical and contemporary view of creativity and explains why it is not always the answer to every problem. From van Gogh to Springsteen, Løhmann Stephensen explores the creative process of artists in order to craft a new theory of creativity—marking it as a collective and dynamic process in flux, rather than a finished product with a set endpoint and sole creator. Finally, he warns, in the twenty-first century, the importance that employers place on creativity has warped the concept into a ubiquitous economic commodity.
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Kunstforskerne VI: Jan Løhmann Stephensen: Postkreativitet (in Danish)

https://kunsten.nu/?p=148652 On creativity as a practise that is no longer just human (if it ever was). Case: Obvious' GAN generated Portrait of Edmond Belamy (2018)
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Creativity and work

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 ‘Creativity’ on LinkedIn’s  Soft Skills  list  We simply crave creativity. Everyone seems to do so. Politicians. Researchers. Businesses. Customers. Employers and Employees. No one can get enough of it.  A good example of this is on LinkedIn's online Learning Universe:  Here, 'creativity' in consecutive years has topped the list of so-called ‘soft skills’, that companies are looking for in potential applicants to fill in vacant position, that is: in job advertisements.  And, in fact, it has topped the list alongside other skills that are closely associated with creativity, at least as we've come to know it — or: as we’ve invented and re-invented it — the last decades, namely, as something that also has to do with 'collaboration' and 'adaptability' (which both also made the top 5 many years).  And yes, I know, LinkedIn is a special kind of Hell on Earth. A place where people are overly enthusiastic about their work lives, about their own merits, and abou
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