{"id":7290,"date":"2010-09-23T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/good-ideas\/"},"modified":"2010-09-23T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T09:15:40","slug":"good-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/good-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><p align=\"center\"><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/StevenJohnson_2010G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/StevenJohnson-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=961&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from;year=2010;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I like much of Steven Johnson&#8217;s stuff, and undoubtedly I will pick up a copy of his latest book project, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation\/dp\/1594487715\">Where Good Ideas Come From<\/a><\/i>, though probably not until next summer.  As I watched this TEDtalk, though, I&#8217;m dissatisfied with how little work on rhetorical invention surfaces here. Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;liquid network&#8221; is an intriguing metaphor, indeed: drink together, think together&#8230;eureka! Or, sometimes, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got nothing. May I have another?&#8221; But I wonder whether this &#8220;natural history of innovation&#8221;  will do much more to advance thinking about how good ideas happen than did Karen Burke LeFevre&#8217;s <em>Invention as a Social Act<\/em> (1987), a book whose premises have by now become a given for contemporary rhetorical thinking. This &#8220;noodling around&#8221; and &#8220;hacking&#8221; is fascinating stuff, especially when such innovative acts are paired with vivid, thoughtful anecdotes, a storytelling strategy Johnson deploys with distinction.  Since Johnson is great at making theoretical concepts accessible, maybe this new project will be a good fit with existing work on invention.  On the other hand, absent some acknowledgment of a larger family of ideas related to invention, e.g., &#8220;systematic serendipity&#8221; (via Merton via Halavais, a concept we discussed yesterday in ENGL326) or contingency (an alternative to managerial rhetoric Muckelbauer develops smartly in <i>The Future of Invention<\/i>), the originary &#8220;where&#8221; from which good ideas come will remain partial, incomplete, problematically runny.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing that I haven&#8217;t picked up the book (!), I look forward to reading it with these few provisional concerns in mind. In that sense, I guess this amounts to some sort of TED-motivated pre-review. Furthermore, I wrote it while sitting all alone in my campus dorm-office, which probably means good ideas here are few, far between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>I like much of Steven Johnson&#8217;s stuff, and undoubtedly I will pick up a copy of his latest book project, Where Good Ideas Come From, though probably not until next summer. As I watched this TEDtalk, though, I&#8217;m dissatisfied with how little work on rhetorical invention surfaces here. 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