{"id":4448,"date":"2011-02-05T03:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/02\/05\/lined-unlined-on-symbolic-creativity\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T03:23:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T03:23:31","slug":"lined-unlined-on-symbolic-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/02\/05\/lined-unlined-on-symbolic-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Lined & Unlined: On “symbolic creativity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lined & Unlined: On “symbolic creativity”<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the 1990 book Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young<\/a>, anthologized in the excellent Everday Life Reader<\/a>, comes this observation from cultural theorist Paul Willis<\/a> on his concept of \u201csymbolic creativity\u201d:<\/p>\n

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[There] is another kind of humanly…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lined & Unlined: On “symbolic creativity” linedandunlined: From the 1990 book Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young, anthologized in the excellent Everday Life Reader, comes this observation from cultural theorist Paul Willis on his concept of \u201csymbolic creativity\u201d: [There] is another kind of humanly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-19K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5477,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2017\/05\/04\/memento-mori\/","url_meta":{"origin":4448,"position":0},"title":"Memento mori","author":"monochromist","date":"May 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Memento mori (Latin: \u201cremember that you have to die\u201d)[2] is the medieval Latin Christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. 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