Kukkonen, Karin
(2025)
Creative Contingencies : A Model for Literary Writing from 4E Cognition and Predictive Processing.
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Abstract
This article presents a model for analysing creative writing through the frameworks of 4E cognition and predictive processing. Creativity is conceptualised through contingency – namely, the sense that things do not have to be the way they appear to us now. Writers integrate contingency into their practices, by provoking and by managing it, and they design literary forms where the contingent is given shape in alternative worlds, strange minds and plot events that depend on the unexpected. When working on a draft, writers alternate between material agency with its spontaneous processes and epistemic agency with its cognitive control. Writers often also embed other texts, fictional minds or representations of writing and reading. I will discuss this process as “mise-en-abyme modelling”, where the tension between material contexts and representations becomes productive. My proposal provides an alternative to traditional, linear process models of writing or creativity more generally. Instead, it traces the interactions between contingency, form and practices through the recursivity between material engagements and fictional representations.
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