Final Death of the Author: Creativity in the Age of Information Society
Final Death of the Author: Creativity in the Age of Information Society
Author(s): Monika VrečarSubject(s): Philosophy, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Centar za filozofiju medija i mediološka istraživanja
Keywords: augmentation of communication processes; digital materialism; democratization of information production; aesthetics of information;
Summary/Abstract: If we assume that creativity is a result of the inner dialogue of creative individual (author), during which he creates an improbable combination of elements (i.e. new information), how can we comprehend creativity today, after we technologically extended our individual consciousness and connected it into a “global brain” via telematics? Prevalence of information and communications technology enables us to create more new information than ever, and allows us to store it in artificial memory, where it could be reused by almost anyone. In the age of ICT, author seems to be superfluous and the inner dialogue has been replaced by interpersonal dialogue. Taken into consideration Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s theory of media, I will try to problematize new paradigm of creativity, as it is disclosing in information society.
Journal: In Medias Res
- Issue Year: 2/2013
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 310-322
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English