Taking creative license: It's not an easy thing meeting your maker
Ensor, J.D. and Redden, G. (2001) Taking creative license: It's not an easy thing meeting your maker. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 4 (4).
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Abstract
Creators do not just 'create' or 'act' -- they are privileged agents, points of origin, sources of innovation and transformation. Within religious systems, creators can exist in an extra-discursive real beyond nature and culture, functioning as the origin of the word and being. They can be supernatural, existing outside nature to influence earthly events via strange powers. They can also be 'supra' natural -- above nature -- capable of acts that both break and establish laws to which the created are subject. Yet, these types of creators only seem to exist through the cultural economies which allow their representation. Their roles and personas can differ with the production, combination and utilisation of selected characterisations: in other words, creators are created.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publisher: | M/C - Media and Culture |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/13742 |
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