Creative Originality Research Articles

How Do Transformational Leadership and Affective Trust Enhance Creativity?

The pressure of competitive higher education has affected most universities, and whether the utilization of human capital as a resource to foster creativity, increase motivation, and boost innovation is an important topic to investigate. This study aims to explore the relationship between the elements of transformational leadership, affective trust, and intrinsic motivation and their impact on creativity to increase the performance of lecturers at Vietnamese universities, where most of them are also creators. Quantitative research is applied with data collected from full-time lecturers at Vietnamese universities from December 2023 to January 2024. The hypothesized correlations were investigated using structural equation modeling on a sample of 311 participants in Vietnam. The findings reveal substantial causal correlations between transformational leadership, affective trust, intrinsic motivation's determinants, and the creativity to improve performance and positive behavior from the lecturers' perspective. These results imply that leaders should focus on the prefix role of transformational leadership, which is the origin of affective trust, intrinsic motivation, and creativity, to raise the standard of higher education. In particular, affective trust needs more attention because it has the most vital mediating role in enhancing the impact of transformational leadership on lecturers' creativity. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2024-08-05-011 Full Text: PDF

The Innovation in Documentary Theme Selection and Creative Originality in Works

The Innovation in Documentary Theme Selection and Creative Originality in Works

The Peripheral Avant-Garde Artist, Part of and Apart from Europe

Abstract This article deals with the building of an avant-garde identity in a peripheral European country by returning to a mythical past placed in Egypt. It focuses on the main promoter of Futurism in Portugal, Almada Negreiros, and on how his African roots played a part in the splitting of the self, a phenomenon that at the time was discussed widely in Fernando Pessoa’s circle and which Pessoa himself so dramatically put into practice with the creation of heteronymous identities. It demonstrates how Almada’s heritage was at once an instrument to perform Otherness—that is, a means to construct an identity as civilisation’s Other—and a gateway to accessing the creative origin of all selves through the connecting cipher of ancient Egypt.

Assia Djebar and Mohamed Dib Two great authors of Algerian literature in French

Mohamed Dib and Assia Djebar are the two great names of Algerian literature written in French. Their vast output covers the different periods, themes and formal trends through which this literature has passed and it is in this sense that they can be described as paradigmatic. Writers of enormous literary quality and undeniable creative originality, one could almost say that it is daring to attempt to draw a comparison between the two writers. And yet, there are countless points of contact between them and their productions, which is what we will discuss in this article.

The village as a source of inspiration in Sergiu Galben's painting

The article highlights the creative originality of Sergiu Galben, a prominent representative of Moldavian fine arts from the second half of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century. His works, varied in terms of motifs and expressive means, impress with the author’s emotional openness, suggest his harmonious connection with the universe of nature, his love for his native land. The artist is emotionally close to the environment of working people from the countryside, which he paints based on the well-assimilated European plastic culture.

Экзистенциальная личность и специфика философского стиля Жоржа Батая: проблема взаимовлияния

The article examines the features of the existential personality, the ideological origins of creativity and the spe-cifics of the philosophical style of the French thinker J. Bataille. The features of J. Bataille’s paradoxical thinking are shown, the value of which is in the ability to analyze various mental states of a person, in the destruction of standard philosophical structures and the creation of new forms of philosophical understanding of reality. The application of the phenomenological approach made it possible to identify the features of J. Bataille’s literary and philosophical style, the inconsistency and complexity of interpreting his texts addressed to existential expe-rience in the act of tragedy, delusions or the search for truth, inseparable from the transgressive state of a per-son. The authors determined that in J. Bataille’s work, the specifics of language, vocabulary, and the ability to express the hidden meaning remind of the author himself, of his constant desire to invade the realm of the im-possible. The study of the problem of the mutual influence of the existential personality and J. Bataille’s philo-sophical thinking was carried out using a hermeneutic approach. The authors also identified a number of XXth century thinkers, such as M. Foucault, N. Land, J. Derridа, whose works were significantly influenced by Ba-taille’s thinking. The novelty of this study is the disclosure of evaluative judgments of the literary style of the French philosopher by modern authors and specialists in the philosophical work of J. Bataille.

The Impact of AI-Driven Narrative Generation, Exemplified by ChatGPT, on the Preservation of Human Creative Originality and Uniqueness

The appearance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have become more adept at generating original texts, becoming the realm of storytelling, as exemplified by ChatGPT and similar language models. This has sparked a growing debate about its impact on the originality and uniqueness of human creativity and thinking. Bringing up the question of whether AI-driven narrative generation is a benefit or a detriment to humanity, this paper delves into the evolution of AI storytelling, examines the capabilities and limitations of large language models like ChatGPT, even under their impressive fluency, and further explores the implications for human creativity and intellectual diversity. While AI storytelling tools have undoubtedly revolutionised content generation, this paper argues that they do not inherently erode human originality and uniqueness and more so cannot authentically replicate the distinctiveness of human thinking. Instead, with conscientious implementation, AI writing technologies may serve as powerful complementary tools that can enhance human creativity, expand the diversity of voices and perspectives, provide more widespread access to the means of storytelling and personal expression, and optimise our human literary activities in a manner that elevates rather than erodes the uniqueness of human literary work when used thoughtfully and ethically.

FORMATION OF A SYSTEM OF CREATIVE MANAGEMENT AT THE ENTERPRISE

Relevance. At the present stage of society's development, new socio-economic processes are coming to the fore, which are inextricably linked to a new understanding of the essence of a person, with the growing role of the individual. In a time of market oversaturation, creativity is the key to a company's competitiveness. Ensuring the continuous development of the enterprise and its competitiveness in the context of capital intellectualization is impossible without the formation of personnel with the necessary knowledge and competencies. The purpose of the study. The purpose of the article is to study the possibilities of applying the creative management system in organizations and enterprises in the field of culture and art in the context of complex socio-economic changes: digitalization, quarantine restrictions, development of information resources that require new approaches to management. Methodology. The study used methods based on general economic statements, in particular, general scientific methods of analysis - detailing individual factors; comparison - highlighting the common features of the impact of individual factors and the method of logical comparison, as well as specific modeling methods - creating models for analyzing the internal environment and expert assessments - summarizing the results of the impact of internal environment factors. Results. One of the main components of the potential for enterprise development is the intellectual resources of management entities. Considering that management entities have different levels of professional training, work experience, collective and individual goals based on needs, preferences, ambitions, etc., the use of intellectual resources for the development of an organization is quite problematic. The concept of creative management is a combination of three concepts: "creativity", "management" and "organization". The term "creativity" (English: creativity, Latin. "creatio) means the creation of something new. There are two main criteria for assessing creativity: the result (quantity and quality); rejection of strategic stereotypes of thinking and action. The study examined the possibilities of applying the creative management system at enterprises in the context of complex socio-economic changes: digitalization, quarantine restrictions, development of information resources that require new approaches to management, identified theoretical aspects of the formation of a creative management system at an enterprise; characterized creativity as a modern trend in enterprise management and formed the principles of creative management implementation, as well as proposed styles for use. Practical significance. The results of this study can be used by enterprises to intensify the generation of ideas, improve the moral and psychological climate in the team and increase the realization of the human potential of employees. Prospects for further research. Further study requires research and definition of the tools of creative management and adaptation of methods and tools to the activities of enterprises in various fields of activity in order to obtain new data on the effectiveness of the application of certain criteria of enterprise activity. Problem statement. In the context of intellectualization of capital, the so-called innovative employees are of particular value to the enterprise, whose competencies include creativity, originality of ideas, creativity, and non-standard approaches to solving professional problems. In line with these trends, a specific branch of management has emerged - creative management, which is aimed at the formation, retention and development of creative employees.

Temporal dynamics of statistical learning in children’s song contributes to phase entrainment and production of novel information in multiple cultures

Statistical learning is thought to be linked to brain development. For example, statistical learning of language and music starts at an early age and is shown to play a significant role in acquiring the delta-band rhythm that is essential for language and music learning. However, it remains unclear how auditory cultural differences affect the statistical learning process and the resulting probabilistic and acoustic knowledge acquired through it. This study examined how children’s songs are acquired through statistical learning. This study used a Hierarchical Bayesian statistical learning (HBSL) model, mimicking the statistical learning processes of the brain. Using this model, I conducted a simulation experiment to visualize the temporal dynamics of perception and production processes through statistical learning among different cultures. The model learned from a corpus of children’s songs in MIDI format, which consists of English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean songs as the training data. In this study, I investigated how the probability distribution of the model is transformed over 15 trials of learning in each song. Furthermore, using the probability distribution of each model over 15 trials of learning each song, new songs were probabilistically generated. The results suggested that, in learning processes, chunking and hierarchical knowledge increased gradually through 15 rounds of statistical learning for each piece of children’s songs. In production processes, statistical learning led to the gradual increase of delta-band rhythm (1–3 Hz). Furthermore, by combining the acquired chunks and hierarchy through statistical learning, statistically novel music was generated gradually in comparison to the original songs (i.e. the training songs). These findings were observed consistently, in multiple cultures. The present study indicated that the statistical learning capacity of the brain, in multiple cultures, contributes to the acquisition and generation of delta-band rhythm, which is critical for acquiring language and music. It is suggested that cultural differences may not significantly modulate the statistical learning effects since statistical learning and slower rhythm processing are both essential functions in the human brain across cultures. Furthermore, statistical learning of children’s songs leads to the acquisition of hierarchical knowledge and the ability to generate novel music. This study may provide a novel perspective on the developmental origins of creativity and the importance of statistical learning through early development.

On the a priori origin of creativity

Aim to explore the nature of creativity as a synergistic process.
 Creativity is a specific human activity presenting a complex configuration of all the personal abilities and characteristics such as sensual and emotional states, intellect, imagination, personal and social characteristics, somatic features and the situationality. But there must be something that transforms all this ontic multitude into an ontologically significant creative event. This something is an a priori form of sensibility spatium (by Deleuze), a sense of the intensity of depth and capacity of space, which, like an attractor, starts the process of crystallization of the work of art. Any creative action (accomplished experience) reveals the deep connections of this particular situation, given here and now. Accomplishment is the very intense interaction of the agent with the material, the exchange of energies between the acting person and the environment, the synergy of a person and the world, where spatium (intuition of the depth and vitality of the situation) plays the role of an attractor, forcing the variety merge into a whole.
 Results. The a priori ability to contemplate the whole (spatium), inherent in human sensibility, is realized in specific historical and specific cultural forms of art in different ways. The article outlines the history of such an implementation.

An Approach to the Creative Origins of Human Life

My several decades of research into artificial intelligence have given rise to two fundamental concerns. Firstly, the awareness of the unacceptable but very likely possibility that humanity will become subject to a subtle but powerful digital dictatorship. Secondly, there is a pressing need to gain a better understanding of human intelligence, which is crucial to understanding ourselves from moment to moment, from day to day and act consequently. We need to find out where actual intelligence lies and see clearly that the power of domination and the corresponding submission to it or lack of actual freedom is the main obstacle to intelligence’s healthy development, the main illness that intelligence can fall prey to. In this essay intelligence is viewed as the embodied interactive agent that creates life, fulfils its needs and harmonizes its interactive diversity - in particular as to human life.

Tinjauan Awal Naskah Sujarah Penatah (Sejarah Penatah Wayang): Naratif, Kreativitas, dan Legitimasi

The names of wayang puppet makers or penatah (in Javanese) are well known among puppetry aficionados in Indonesia, but little tends to be known about their biographies. It is as if their personalities are overwhelmed by the greatness of their art work. In Yogyakarta’s wayang tradition, a number of names such Resapenatas, Maraguna, Kertiwanda, Prawirasucitra, Prayitnawiguna and Bundhu are very well known. All are considered great wayang makers or artists, with distinct aesthetic styles, but almost all details of their lives are unknown. The only substantial written text to concern penatah is a manuscript titled Sujarah Panatah (A History of Wayang Carvers)written in the early 20th century in Yogyakarta. Tales about carverstake the form of wayang plays. In one play, Ki Mangunwiguna teaches his son how to make a wayang based on prior exemplars. The author of the text tries to connect factual stories and myths about the gods. As in babad stories about kings of yore, wayang makers are presented as if they are also not just ordinary people. This is a means to establish their legitimacy. They are chosen, because they are able to communicate with gods. Alongside the text are wayang-style illustrations, supplementing the creativity of the narrative. This paper will consider the factual basis and validity of stories collected in the Sujarah Penatah, the way the text understands the origins of creativity and its mode for legitimising wayang makers and the continuity of their craft.

Components of professional competence and innovative professional activity of an hei teacher

The issue of professional competence and innovative activity of teachers in higher education is of great relevance in the current stage. This significance arises primarily from the evolving perception of teachers as participants in the educational process. There is a growing perspective that teachers are not solely dominant in organizing the educational process but rather assume a role akin to that of administrators. Consequently, the question of professional competence and innovative activity becomes crucial, as the changing perception of the teacher's role also alters the understanding of the specific qualities required to effectively engage with students. This study aims to elucidate the constituents of professional competence and innovative professional activity within the context of higher education teachers. The object of this research encompasses the components inherent in the professional activity of teachers within higher educational institutions. study employed various research methods, including description, analysis and synthesis, comparison, and generalization. This study investigates the essence of the concept of "competence" and juxtaposes its meaning with that of "professional competence." The elucidation of the essential nature of professional competence for teachers is conducted. Furthermore, the research comprehensively analyzes the structural segmentation of a teacher's professional competence into distinct parts, describes the categorization of competence into groups, and provides a summary of existing classifications on the components of a teacher's professional competence. Simultaneously, this study examines the concept of "innovative professional activity of teachers in higher education institutions." To achieve this, the phenomenon is expounded upon through a comprehensive set of interconnected components that unveil the foundation of innovation in fulfilling the teacher's assigned functions and responsibilities. Moreover, the origins of a teacher's creativity and the requisite conditions for its manifestation are also identified. Within this study, the type of a teacher's activity is determined based on its specific orientation. This categorization enables the identification of essential competencies necessary for the successful execution of each respective activity. Moreover, the significance of individual components in facilitating a teacher's professional engagement is indicated. Additionally, a scheme has been constructed to illustrate the progression of creative thinking development among teachers. This scheme portrays the sequential stages involved in the formation of creative thinking. Consequently, it can be inferred that a teacher's creative thinking evolves in logical conjunction with other components, thereby facilitating the cultivation of their innovative domain. The abstract describes the main results of the research and defines the sequence of consideration of the basic issues of the work. Methods such as description, analysis and synthesis, comparison, and generalization became the methodological basis of the research. They were applied to determine the main aspects of the work and were used to formulate and implement the tasks of the article. At the same time, according to the conducted research, competence is a set of qualities that are characteristic of a teacher and help him to carry out his work. In particular, it is determined that the competencies of a teacher of a higher education institution are Motivational; Activity; Cognitive; Emotional; Volitional, Their combination allows the teacher to carry out his activities effectively and with benefit for pupils. At the same time, it was established that competence is special and general. It was determined that the steps of professional competence formation are the following stages: Stage 1 - imitation and copying; Stage 2 - creative imitation; Stage 3 - imitative creativity; Stage 4 - genuine creativity. Each stage involves the teacher's use of the knowledge acquired at the previous stage and their correct application. Therefore, it was established that the formation of professional competence is a long-term process that requires considerable knowledge and effort. The teacher must have experience of behavior in various situations and know the psychology of students in order to make timely decisions. At the same time, it was established that it is important to have a harmonious combination of different qualities, which allows you to correctly assess the situation and present yourself as a professional and at the same time as a person who can teach moral qualities to others.

“Caricature” in Hjalmar Bergman’s Works

The article examines the creative originality of the Swedish writer Hjalmar Bergman, the creator of the original aesthetic concept, which he embodied in his novels of the first third of the 20th century, combining funny and tragic, fantastic and real, sharp grotesque and psychological depth, which served to affirm the ideals of good and humanity.

ФИЛОСОФСКИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТВОРЧЕСТВА: ПОПЫТКА ОБЗОРА

Objective of the study is a brief overview of the most significant philosophical approaches to creativity, highlighting key problems related to the topic of creativity, such as: an ontological question involving secular and religious-mystical interpretations of creativity, as well as the problem of the complex connection of rational and non-rational moments in creativity. The methodological basis of the research consists of historical-philosophical and comparative approaches, as well as the method of problematization, since the article compares different versions of the interpretation of the "sources of creativity" and these versions themselves are interpreted as an open problem that has not yet had a final solution and remains open. Research results is the disclosure of the content of the secular and religious-mystical interpretation of the origins of creativity, where in the secular philosophical interpretation the emphasis is placed on the specifics of human cultural activity, and in the religious one – on the figure of God as a transcendent principle that creates people themselves. The article also reveals, in relation to the topic of creativity, various interpretations of the ratio of rational and non-rational in the inner world of a person. They are summarized by the author in the allocation of three models: 1. level, 2. focused on the complementarity of the two principles of the inner world and 3. symbolic, referring to the continuity of the idea. Prospects of the study. The author sees great prospects in the development of the analyzed topic, since each of the noted plots, despite the abundance of well-known authors, is essentially at the stage of versions and hypothetical sketches, which only indicate different optics of seeing the topic of creativity. The approaches of constructivism are promising for development, within the framework of which a certain synthesis of secular and religious-mystical approaches is possible. &nbsp

Twentieth-сentury modern art: evolution and main trends

In the eighteenth century, Western civilization entered a historical epoch known as the Enlightenment, which established a new cultural and artistic paradigm of modernity. A German philosopher Jürgen Habermas remarked in this context: “The Enlightenment project formulated by the Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century consisted in their desire to create an objective science, a universal morality and law, and an autonomous art based on their internal logic of development.” The following two centuries brought incredible diversity and depth to the Western art scene. They witnessed an unprecedented array of movements and creative originality. In addition, and in pursuit of the proclaimed ideal of total autonomy, twentieth-century artists revised the three most essential principles of art. The masters of modernism reinterpreted a traditional relationship between the means of representation and the object of art. They developed a new understanding of the role of the author in creating an artwork. And finally, they changed their view of the relationship between art and life. Those three features, in my opinion, comprise the substantive evolution of twentieth-century modern art.

Diversification of the linguistic and cultural paradigm in the philosophical dimension of modernity

The purpose of the article is to diversification of the linguistic and cultural paradigm in the philosophical dimension of modernity. The cultural transformations of irony term reveal the genesis of its’ philosophical content. The classical metaphysics understood irony as methodological strategy of knowledge acquiring, but modern and postmodern modality philosophy underlines its’ human measured content. Non classical interpretation of ironical discourse denies the overpower of logo centrism and rehabilitates the direct human feelings sphere. During the process of total semiotic reformation of culture irony looses the destructive potential, becomes the therapeutically procedure and deep quotation, representing the inter textuality of culture, but denies the possibility to prove ontological authentity or creative originality.

Креативность и творчество в социокультурном ракурсе

The article discusses a number of approaches to the question of the relationship between the concepts of “creati­vity” and “oeuvre”, the distinctive characteristics of each of them are noted. A significant difference between creativity and oeuvre is established when considering their general orientation towards creating something new. The different sociocultural status of the new in creativity and oeuvre is revealed, “secondary novelty” as an essential sign of creative activity and fundamental novelty as a distinctive feature of creative activity are compared. A comparative analysis of creativity and oeuvre is carried out through an appeal to artistic culture, the development of which was influenced by Internet technologies. Attention to such a phenomenon of modern network literature as fan fiction has deepened the understanding of the originality of creativity and its difference from oeuvre.

Creativity Opportunities: When Non-science Helps o Answer Scientific Questions

In this reply to the article by A.M. Dorozhkin and S.V. Shibarshina, the question of the creative nature of the randomization technique is considered, which is understood as a rejection of logically obvious ways to solve scientific problems, and involves the inclusion of an element of randomness, or uncertainty, in the scientific search procedure. Some doubt is expressed about the consequences of introducing the technique of epistemological randomization into the tactics of solving scientific problems. The author of the article emphasizes the fact that an attempt to solve scientific problems by an inclusion of other, non-scientific elements in the area of science may be a case of randomization. The author determines the areas which are subject to an uncertainty factor. Art and culture are regarded as such non-science areas. However, the appeal to uncertainty is an indication of a fundamental inability to describe in quantitative terms the origin of creativity. This position can be characterized as “misterianism” in the interpretation of creativity, by analogy with misterianism in the understanding of consciousness by K. McGinn. In this case, the randomization technique is nothing more than one of the possible conditions for creativity, which cannot guarantee the appearance of an original result.

Exploring the behavioral and neural correlates of semantic distance in creative writing.

Creativity is critical to economic growth and societal progress. However, assessing creativity using objective approaches remains a challenge. To address this, we employ three objective indicators based on semantic distance to quantify the originality and appropriateness of creativity by analyzing long texts in a story-writing experiment. Global and local distances were generated separately by computing the mean distance of the whole text and the distance between adjacent sentences, and they were positively correlated with story originality in writing. Global cohesion was positively correlated with story rationality in writing, as generated by computing the semantic coherence between the text and story context. At the behavioral level, three semantic indicators were used to measure originality and appropriateness of creativity and reflected individual differences, including creative achievement and creative personality. At the neural level, global distance was best predicted by the features of the salience and default networks, whereas global cohesion corresponded to the control and salience networks. These findings point to a stable neural basis for semantic indicators and verify the idea of separating different dimensions of creativity. Taken together, our results demonstrate the significance of semantic indicators in assessing creativity and provide insights into analyzing long texts in natural paradigm.