Human improvisation is regulated by historically situated conditions
Evidence
It is here that we can invoke, once more, Bourdieu’s thesis (above, p. 219) that we each of us possess powers of regulated improvisation, shaped by experience, which allow us ‘an endless capacity to en gender products - thoughts, perceptions, expressions, actions - whose limits are set by the historically situated conditions’ of their production; the ‘conditioned and conditional freedom’ this secures ‘is as remote from the creation of unpredictable novelty as it is from simple mechanical reproduction of the initial conditionings.’ — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2147
Categorization
- DEFINE: Harvey deploys Bourdieu’s ‘regulated improvisation’ ‘habitus’ concept as the mechanism explaining why capitalist production yields variety without genuine novelty.
- XREF: connects to: Homeric epithets form a metrical system built for oral improvisation — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 33; The mass culture virtuoso is an improviser in a compulsory situation — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 128; Early twentieth-century migration turned life into self-created improvisation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 105 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- The mass culture virtuoso is an improviser in a compulsory situation
#exemplifies(0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 128 - Homeric epithets form a metrical system built for oral improvisation
#exemplifies(0.75) — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 33