The Culture of Possibility
Submitted by Steve on June 3, 2013
Linda Essig reviews Arlene Goldbard's book, The Culture of Possibility for her blog, Creative Infrastructure:
The basic premise of the book is like the 100% full water glass: if we shift our perception, if we shift the background (culture) to the foreground, a world of possibilities will be open to us. She is asking for a complete paradigm shift – a phrase she uses throughout the book – “a radical revision of a model of reality, changing the meaning of all that we see and do.”
And why not? For too long, or at least as long as I’ve been following along, arts and culture advocacy arguments have been trafficking in small ideas, ideas about price and economics, rather than big ideas, ideas about the role of arts and culture in improving our basic social existence.