Sam Franklin

Lecturer @tudelft; Cult of Creativity (UChiP). Cultural History, STS, DH, etc. TBH this is now just where I keep track of my book press and get overwhelmed.

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

https://t.co/6fFsd8EDeg Happy to have The Cult of Creativity reviewed in @NewYorker . I also think today is the book’s official release date?

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

クリエイティブという神話 私たちはなぜそれを崇拝するのか / 原タイトル:The Cult of Creativity サミュエル・フランクリン/著 加藤洋子/訳 本/雑誌 - Neowing https://t.co/UJ5V96Cdwq #neowing

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@kramermj (and sorry for the messy threading. I'm bad at Twitter).

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@kramermj Totally, me too, and I even felt trapped in it. At its best it's "dialectical thinking" but normally it just ends up being "it's both" (as if the reactionary/progressive dichotomy is an actual thing)....

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@kramermj That said, I actually tried (but obviously not hard enough) to make it clear "creativity" only *appeared* to resolve contradictions, but left the essential political economic problems in place. In this sense I'm simply in that old tradition of "why no socialism in America."

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@kramermj ... I do think with anything big and cultural (diffused, shared) be it the Idea of Creativity or the Work Ethic, their power in the world and as historiographical topics are in their ability to play for both teams, to resolve contradictions, etc., so it's sort of inevitable...

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@kramermj (lol sorry, had a bad connex, didn't think this posted... anyway, here's the rest)...

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

New: The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin reviewed by @drgavinmiller

"a fascinating account of the origins of contemporary creativity discourse that is sure to inspire further research in this area"

https://t.co/6pqcGjP1GV

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"The concept’s opaqueness allowed users to commit neither to the elites that lauded its virtues nor to the egalitarian sensibilities that insisted creativity was a latent trait evenly distributed."

William Krause on The Cult of Creativity @UChicagoPress

https://t.co/BRJq5Mrjbj

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

retweet if you've plagiarized my work specifically

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

Super great full-page review in the WSJ: https://t.co/L7mm1nvpxU

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@STS_News We need to talk about all this futures stuff.

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@HelenZaltzman @AllusionistShow Did it! I'm a little slow because I'm never here. Also, did it occur to you the nesting wrens *are* the suggestion?

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

Hi @AllusionistShow @HelenZaltzman 👋 I’ve got an episode I’d like to pitch. Is there somewhere I can reach you? A suggestion box nailed to a tree some place, perhaps?

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

I love Leonardo journal, and was really pleased with this review of my book.
https://t.co/XHpmFpt6xT

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

Wow, a nice little write-up of The Cult of Creativity in the Times of India!

https://t.co/U5V40vAs7J

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

I'm so pleased to have this excerpt from The Cult of Creativity reprinted in Behavioral Scientist, and to reach some of the communities whose history I write about.

The Surprising Origins of Our Obsession with Creativity https://t.co/bFzIARaBE3 via @behscientist

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

https://t.co/6nZfQ2m2Ix
Just gonna leave this here

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@bluebird0605 谢谢。该书的中文翻译正在进行中。(I generated that from Google Translate. I'm happy to report there is a Chinese translation of the book in progress)

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@AnneHummert ...I hope you enjoy the book! But of course if you have quibbles with my treatment of the creative revolution, or of the proto-branded content in Chapter 8, bring 'em on.

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

An excerpt from The Cult of Creativity is in one of my favorite publications of allllll time.

[Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart]

Meet the self-help author who wanted to teach corporate America how to think. https://t.co/sSj4sFrrIs

[Sam Franklin @HiSamFranklin]

@AnneHummert This is fabulous! I love the "better living through chemistry" bit, and of course that you saw, more than twenty years before I did, that "creativity" itself came to be seen as the industry's real product.