What is it about?
In this chapter, we sketch the outlines of the tool agnostic as figuration, a cultural trope for techno-social agency, that is particularly suited to contemporary cultural production. We develop this sketch through an analysis based on fieldwork of a graduate digital media training program. After a brief introduction, we begin the chapter by discussing our conceptual framework for the tool agnostic as figuration. We argue that it affords its actors with the ability to circumvent the antinomy between formalism and its critique as technological determinism by presenting the creative subject as perennially ambivalent—both lured and skeptic—toward the affordances and possibilities of softwarization. It gives the subject a sense of creative control through software by striving to be free from any commitment to software.
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Why is it important?
We investigate a trope for creative agency - the tool agnostic - and how it is used by creative practitioners to attain control over the creative process.
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A great case study of how people learn to become creative practitioners in the 21st century.
Dr Frederik F Lesage
Simon Fraser University
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This page is a summary of: Figurations of the Tool Agnostic, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45693-0_6.
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