La creatividad del imaginario o el imaginario de la creatividad

Abstract

Castoriadis thought creativity as a fundamental attribute of society. Modernity, heir of the inherited thought centered on the idea of determined (and deterministic) being, omitted its protagonism in favor of a closed dialectic alien to the human will to intervene in the historical course. This creativity, always according to Castoriadis, refers to the being-for-being that announces a potential reality in which the imagination awakens social action from a narrative, spatial and temporal symbolism with which social life identifies itself. The creative dimension of the imaginary corresponds to an ontology of indeterminacy in which being-for-being does not correspond either to determinism or to mere randomness. Today we do not live in times of determinism, but of planned and organized randomness in which a notion of normalized creativity matures, adapted to a gaseous and innocuous aestheticism and to a way of life subjected to urgency and acceleration. Singularity has become a new imperative that breaks and fragments the social will into a myriad of unconnected biographies. The creativity of the imaginary has been inverted into the imaginary of creativity.