CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tim Ingold, 'The Creativity of Habit'
| Dates: | 7 February 2018 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity
Tim Ingold (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen), will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Creativity of Habit'.
Do we make habits, or do habits make us? I argue that habit is neither producer nor product but a principle of production whereby a being that dwells in its own practices is recursively generated by them. Such a being is free, not in the illusory sense of a subjective free will that stands opposed to the objective necessity of predetermination, but in a real sense, founded in attention to others and responsive to the ways they are going. The freedom of habit, necessarily caught in the mesh of attention and response, is a condition for truly creative life.
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Lecture Theatre B
Roscoe Building
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