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Creative Ecologies - Where Thinking Is a Proper Job (Hardcover)
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Creative Ecologies - Where Thinking Is a Proper Job (Hardcover)
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The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we
struggle with this question, we face others. How do we handle ideas
and knowledge, both our own and those of others? What relationship
to ideas do we want? Whose ideas do we want to be surrounded by?
Where do we want to think? Most choose, or have the choice made for
them, according to what family, colleagues, and friends do and say
and what we read about, and a more or less rational calculation of
the odds. Modern ecology results from the shift in thinking
generated by quantum physics and systems theory, from the old view
based on reductionism, mechanics, and fixed quantities to a new
view based on holistic systems where qualities are contingent on
the observer and on each other. This perception changes how people
treat ideas and facts, certainties and uncertainties, and affects
both art and science. Worldwide it is part of the process of
understanding the current crisis in the environment, and the
balance of economy, creativity, and control required in our
response. The book's starting point is the growing role that
information has played in industrial economies since the 1800s and
especially in the last thirty years. It is an attempt to identify
ecology of thinking and learning. It is also based on the need to
escape from old, industrial ways and become more attuned to how
people actually borrow, develop, and share ideas. Throughout the
book, Howkins asks questions and offers signposts. He gives no
guarantee that creative ecologies will be sustainable, but shows
what should be aimed for.
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