{"id":193,"date":"2007-11-28T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/11\/28\/art-as-communicative-action-why-creativi"},"modified":"2007-11-28T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T19:05:41","slug":"art-as-communicative-action-why-creativity-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/11\/28\/art-as-communicative-action-why-creativity-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Art as communicative action: why creativity matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my time here at the Berkman Center, steeping in the values of Creative Commons, I&#8217;ve struggled with the value of art in (post)modern society. After all, art doesn&#8217;t feed the hungry or spread democracy&#8230; does it?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it does, according to new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/27\/science\/27angi.html\">theories positing that art plays a role in human evolution<\/a>. Some of it seems to reflect fit strongly with linguistic theory. If art functions as non-verbal communication, it can also serve as the basis for rational communicative action &#8212; albeit a different kind of rationality.<\/p>\n<p>Now I see why the line that runs from Habermas to Benkler crosses into free artistic expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my time here at the Berkman Center, steeping in the values of Creative Commons, I&#8217;ve struggled with the value of art in (post)modern society. After all, art doesn&#8217;t feed the hungry or spread democracy&#8230; does it? Perhaps it does, according to new theories positing that art plays a role in human evolution. Some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}