Lecturer @tudelft; Cult of Creativity (UChiP). Cultural History, STS, DH, etc. TBH this is now just where I keep track of my book press and get overwhelmed.
Den Haag, NL
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newyorker.com/magazine/2023/… Happy to have The Cult of Creativity reviewed in @NewYorker . I also think today is the book’s official release date?
クリエイティブという神話 私たちはなぜそれを崇拝するのか / 原タイトル:The Cult of Creativity サミュエル・フランクリン/著 加藤洋子/訳 本/雑誌 - Neowing neowing.co.jp/product/NEOBK-… #neowing
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New: The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin reviewed by @drgavinmiller
"a fascinating account of the origins of contemporary creativity discourse that is sure to inspire further research in this area"
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"The concept’s opaqueness allowed users to commit neither to the elites that lauded its virtues nor to the egalitarian sensibilities that insisted creativity was a latent trait evenly distributed."
William Krause on The Cult of Creativity @UChicagoPress
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I love Leonardo journal, and was really pleased with this review of my book.
leonardo.info/review/2023/09…
Wow, a nice little write-up of The Cult of Creativity in the Times of India!
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
I'm so pleased to have this excerpt from The Cult of Creativity reprinted in Behavioral Scientist, and to reach some of the communities whose history I write about.
The Surprising Origins of Our Obsession with Creativity behavioralscientist.org/the-… via @behscientist
Hi @AllusionistShow @HelenZaltzman 👋 I’ve got an episode I’d like to pitch. Is there somewhere I can reach you? A suggestion box nailed to a tree some place, perhaps?
I wrote a little essay for the @MontrealReview on the concept of creativity in the long(-ish) arc of cultural history. themontrealreview.com/Articl…
A really lovely and thoughtful review of my book in the @chronicle of Higher Education.
chronicle.com/article/the-co…
Thank you to the brilliant @throughlineNPR for giving me nearly an hour to talk about the weird concept of creativity. Thanks for the challenging questions, thanks for the amazing audio clips.
npr.org/2023/07/12/118730885…
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"Creativity is one of the few American pieties. Whatever it might be, we all agree that it is good, and that we should have 'more' of it." @CharlieTyson1 on Samuel Weil Franklin's "The Cult of Creativity," for @ChronicleReview chronicle.com/article/the-co…
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I wrote about a new cultural history of creativity, for @chronicle / @ChronicleReview chronicle.com/article/the-co…
Parlez-vous français? Read this interview I gave! It was super fun and got into some important stuff.
Samuel W. Franklin vient de publier The Cult of Creativity (non traduit, ndlr). Il y parle d’une créativité façonnée, en grande partie, pour répondre aux appétits du capitalisme, glamourisée pour faire vendre.
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True to the book’s subtitle, you likely will be surprised to learn that as a supposed unitary facet of human personality, creativity is a relatively recent concept.
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What is it about creativity that is so inherently good? And does it actually offer the solution to all of our problems?
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I was on BBC Radio 4 talking about “the dark side of creativity” mwahahahaha…have a listen: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mll…
