Embracing Uncertainty : How writers, musicians and artists thrive in an unpredictable world

Heffernan, Margaret

Policy Press（2025/03発売）

Policy Press（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 214 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781447372677
• DDC分類 658.4063

Full Description

Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted—and more anxious than ever. Doubling down on the certainties promised by technology and micro-management only makes things worse, leaving no opportunity for innovation, adaptation or invention.

Artists live with uncertainty constantly—but instead of waiting for the future, they run towards making it, with agency and freedom. What can we learn from them, about facing into a future that grows more uncertain daily?

At a time when organizations of all kinds crave innovation but complain their people lack creativity and initiative, the arts have never been so essential to our future. We may not all be artists, but we can learn to think like them.

Margaret Heffernan makes a compelling argument for the vital integration of art into all aspects of our lives and for artists to guide us with their stamina, freedom and endurance.

Contents

Prologue: the cost of certainty

- Paraorchestra

1. Deep hanging out

- Piers Plowright

2. Into the forest

- Gabriella A. Moses

3. Call and response

- RADA

4. Prepared minds

- Christine Vachon

5. Kill all the poets: art and politics

- RAFTS

Epilogue: the benefits of uncertainty