Overview
- Offers a scholarly study into the cultural meanings of Singapore’s urban space through poetry and photography
- Blends ethnography, creative writing, street photography, psychogeography and topophilia as research methods
- Explores depression and creative practices in the age of the Internet and capitalist societies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research. Drawing on an innovative combination of different forms of knowledge, creative writing and street photographs are presented as means to reflect on the development of knowledge and self-knowledge through a thought-provoking dialogue with Roland Barthes’ post-structuralist work. What does it mean to be a creative practitioner in a world traversed by values of capitalism and artificial intelligence? What does it mean to teach creative practices in such an environment?
The urban landscape of Singapore, with the Jewel Changi mall, the Universal Studios, and Little India in the background, is the stage where the capitalist demands of modern city life grapple with the solitary act of writing poetry and taking photographs through the personal experience of the author. Capitalist realism and depression realism entwine with Barthes' notion of vita nova in a mesmerizing phantasmagoria that drags the reader to the bowels and secret pleasures of the creative process.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Eddie Tay is Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Born in Singapore and a long-term resident in Hong Kong, he is a poet and a street photographer, and director of Cart Noodles Press, the department’s recently-established literary imprint. In the Palgrave Studies of Creativity and Culture series he already published Hong Kong as Creative Practice (2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creative Practice as a Way of Life
Book Subtitle: After Barthes
Authors: Eddie Tay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52251-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52250-5Published: 13 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52253-6Due: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52251-2Published: 12 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2755-4503
Series E-ISSN: 2755-4511
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 186
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Audio-Visual Culture, Urban Studies/Sociology, Photography, Ethnography, Creative Writing