Podcast from the Prairie: “The Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man”
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the creativity of both humans and the larger living world.
creativity
Some reflections on the difference between ‘Yes, but’ and ‘Yes, and’
While I entirely appreciate that ‘Yes, but’ has a role in holding those in power to account, it also suffocates and stifles and undermines. Just for those few moments, I allowed myself to imagine how our political debates might look if they had ‘Yes, and’ at their heart. I liked what I saw.
‘The Creativity Crisis’
If climate change is anything, it must be the greatest failure of the imagination in the history of the world. Perhaps K’s paper might offer some illumination as to why our response isn’t happening fast enough?
If We had More Imagination, We could Have Less Capitalism
If we take this idea seriously, that this is an interpenetrated, interrelated, interconnected cosmos, then there’s going to be interconnections with creativity.
Four Clues You’re an Artist (Human)
What we need is a world full of artists.
Deep thought – headlines
•The Perennially "Unusual" Yet Somehow Ubiquitous Left-Right Alliance: Towards Acknowledging an Anti-Establishment Center
•The Death of Imagination
•Towards Peaceful Adaptation