Happy New Year to everyone in the big idea community - all 5500 of you

This year we could all.... drive less, make friends with the new immigrant in our lives, love our tamariki and our kaumatua, be provocative like the weather and remember that creativity is an autonomous practice of freedom...

"The aspiration to be creative seems today to be more or less compulsory in an increasing number of areas of life. In psychological vocabularies, in economic life, in education and beyond, the values of creativity have taken on the force of a moral agenda. Yet creativity is a value which, though we may believe we choose it ourselves, may in fact make us complicit with what today might be seen as the most conservative of norms: compulsory individualism, compulsory 'innovation', compulsory performativity and productiveness, the compulsory valorization of the putatively new." Thomas Osborne

Read the other 20 pages hereHappy New Year to everyone in the big idea community - all 5500 of you

This year we could all.... drive less, make friends with the new immigrant in our lives, love our tamariki and our kaumatua, be provocative like the weather and remember that creativity is an autonomous practice of freedom...

"The aspiration to be creative seems today to be more or less compulsory in an increasing number of areas of life. In psychological vocabularies, in economic life, in education and beyond, the values of creativity have taken on the force of a moral agenda. Yet creativity is a value which, though we may believe we choose it ourselves, may in fact make us complicit with what today might be seen as the most conservative of norms: compulsory individualism, compulsory 'innovation', compulsory performativity and productiveness, the compulsory valorization of the putatively new." Thomas Osborne

Read the other 20 pages here