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+title: "Cultures of Process. Of Lone Geniuses and Emergent Novelty"
+collection: talks
+category: "upcoming"
+type: "Presentation"
+permalink: /talks/2025-cultures-of-process
+venue: "GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future"
+date: 2025-11-27
+location: "University of Amsterdam"
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+In this conference paper, I try to advances a non-agentic, process-oriented account of novelty that complements social-ontological analyses of LLMs while resisting both techno-determinism and romantic
+individualism.
+Attributing creativity to the products of an LLM, therefore, is not a verdict on
+transformer software per se but a reflection of how its outputs are woven into
+ongoing cultural processes of novelty selection and valuation. Statistical variations
+generated by the model gain the status of “creative” only when broader cultural
+processes recognise, circulate, and stabilise them within existing repertoires of
+interpretation and use. Creativity therefore appears at the interface where algorithmic
+stochasticity meets socio-cultural selection.