The spark, the spread and ethics

Towards an object-orientated view of subversive creativity

Bibliographic Data

ID4475424
AuthorsOli Mould (0000-0001-5284-406X, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume37
Issue3
Pages468-483
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0263775818822830
OpenAlexW2908905186
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited41

This paper articulates the subversive and political potential of an object-orientated view of urban creativity. Drawing upon object-orientated philosophies, it further develops the political and subversive potential of the creativity rhetoric to argue that nonhuman material agency is an important factor in propelling subversive behaviour into sustained political change. By focusing on the agency of objects and their ability to challenge our own behaviour in the city, the paper posits a three-stage articulation of subversive creativity; the spark, the spread and ethics. From this, the paper argues that creativity can be posited less as a mechanism of change that is all too often co-opted and reappropriated by normalising forces, but as a subversive force that has a potential to create alternative and sustained political subjectivities

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Articulation (sociology · Creativity · Epistemology · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · SPARK (programming language · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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