The Oceanic Imagination: Affects, Surreal Images and Strings

• 作者: Emily ShuHui Tsai
• 来源期刊: 文化与宗教研究:英文版
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: CREATIVITY chaos affect surreal images STRING IMAGINATION
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（7）
• 页码范围: 348-359
• 页数: 12页
• 分类号: C

摘要

The creative forces of affects are considered to be a mysterious power within our immanence. Although creators exist like lonely islands and may be more vulnerable to poor health, it is problematic to draw an inference that mental illness nourishes creativity. Artists, philosophers, and scientists have to struggle with chaos to create a new vision into their works. This paper argues that first, the creativity of affects is a mysterious power of our immanence, not nourished by pathology;second, the surreal images of curved and juxtaposed spaces by the artists resonate with the scientific experiments conducted by string physicists who propose the existence of multiverse with the possibility of 11-dimensional spaces. Therefore, the creators have shared the equally-important status as the singular beings in their different modes of lives. Deleuze’s and Guattari’s creative concepts of philosophy help improve the better understanding of the mysterious power of oceanic affects within our immanence. Thus, the general opinion that creativity and mental illness are infamously connected should be entirely re-questioned and re-examined.