Comments on: slower, softer http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:21:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jean http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-18590 Jean Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:03:59 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/#comment-18590 Trine, your assumption may or may not be correct. ;) Enjoy the thoroughness and care with which I will bet you're approaching your DPhil - I'm so aware that after graduation it's going to be hard to find that much thinking space ever again! Trine, your assumption may or may not be correct. ;) Enjoy the thoroughness and care with which I will bet you’re approaching your DPhil – I’m so aware that after graduation it’s going to be hard to find that much thinking space ever again!

]]> By: trine http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-18559 trine Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:31:29 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/#comment-18559 yes yes and yes. had to reference this over at mine as i totally agree. i assume it refers partially to the AOIR feedback david mentioned to me some weeks back. only problem is, i need to speed up slightly as i am taking it a bit tooooo slow i think! ;-) Happy easter! yes yes and yes.
had to reference this over at mine as i totally agree. i assume it refers partially to the AOIR feedback david mentioned to me some weeks back.
only problem is, i need to speed up slightly as i am taking it a bit tooooo slow i think! ;-) Happy easter!

]]> By: Jean http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-18529 Jean Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:41:56 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/#comment-18529 thanks danny - i like the quote, although I think part of what I'm trying to communicate is the interesting challenge of doing something *other* than either 'sabotage' or be hegemonised into any given project. For example, I'm trying to remember that even hype has its uses (such as the diffusion of the idea that a particular media technology is in fact open to use at all - after which point we can start to notice just how constrained or skewed or partisan this apparent openness is, and try to do something about that). But I share the spirit of your comments absolutely and I will definitely take your advice re discouragement! thanks danny – i like the quote, although I think part of what I’m trying to communicate is the interesting challenge of doing something *other* than either ’sabotage’ or be hegemonised into any given project. For example, I’m trying to remember that even hype has its uses (such as the diffusion of the idea that a particular media technology is in fact open to use at all – after which point we can start to notice just how constrained or skewed or partisan this apparent openness is, and try to do something about that). But I share the spirit of your comments absolutely and I will definitely take your advice re discouragement!

]]> By: janny http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-18517 janny Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:19:42 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/#comment-18517 Ya!i do agree with danny. Your blog is really superb. What an interesting site!!! Great info about new research methods. Your innovations can be valued through degrees of pressure. Doing a great job. Keep going! Ya!i do agree with danny. Your blog is really superb. What an interesting site!!! Great info about new research methods. Your innovations can be valued through degrees of pressure. Doing a great job. Keep going!

]]> By: danny http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-18170 danny Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:42:52 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2006/04/13/please-slow-down/#comment-18170 "I write in the conviction that sometimes it is best to sabotage what is inexorably to hand, than to invent a tool that no one will test, while mouthing varieties of liberal pluralism", says Gayatri (with an uncharacteristic grammatical slip). The key word for me is "test". How does one know what an innovation is? The approval of one's research community (let alone the media) is no longer / never was sufficient to guarantee the beneficience of one's activity. Instead, as you point out, to measure the value of our innovations amongst the reluctant/skeptical (not to mention the poor, the dispossessed, and the unimaginable) is a different kind of value which can never be gained (and will not be recognised) in the speedy economies of serial prognostication and the next big thing. Good luck and don't be discouraged! “I write in the conviction that sometimes it is best to sabotage what is inexorably to hand, than to invent a tool that no one will test, while mouthing varieties of liberal pluralism”, says Gayatri (with an uncharacteristic grammatical slip).

The key word for me is “test”. How does one know what an innovation is? The approval of one’s research community (let alone the media) is no longer / never was sufficient to guarantee the beneficience of one’s activity. Instead, as you point out, to measure the value of our innovations amongst the reluctant/skeptical (not to mention the poor, the dispossessed, and the unimaginable) is a different kind of value which can never be gained (and will not be recognised) in the speedy economies of serial prognostication and the next big thing.

Good luck and don’t be discouraged!

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