ABSTRACT

This paper aims at investigating how the cross-cultural chasm can be meaningfully connected with the discussion on creativity and imagination. In order to examine cross-cultural creativity and imagination, several basic assumptions in the Western tradition must be reexamined and put into question. To begin with, the translatability and equivalence of the notions of “creation” and “imagination” are examined in the cross-cultural context in terms of the “gaps” in terminology itself. Following on from this, the paper proposes several working hypotheses with regard to these themes. The paper takes up two topics that provide essential metaphors: first, climatology or meteorology, and, second, tectonics or geological imagination. The paper then examines the dichotomy between digital and analogical devices and questions the status quo of information technology and its theoretical foundation. The rehabilitation of the virtual capacity in manual operation comes into focus in order to reveal the limits of verbal information. The importance of the chiasm or void in networking is also put forward. One purpose of the present paper is to address the question of how the gap between Eastern terminology and Western thinking in the realm of creative imagination can be bridged, despite the semantic chiasm and lack of equivalence that divides them.

摘要

本文旨在研究如何将跨文化鸿沟与关于创造力和想象力的讨论有意义地联系起来。为了检验跨文化的创造力和想象力，必须重新审查和质疑西方传统中的几个基本假设。首先，在跨文化背景下，根据术语本身的“空白”来检验“创造”和“想象”概念的可译性和对等性。在此之后，本文针对这些主题提出了一些可行的假设。本文涉及两个提供基本隐喻的主题：第一，气候学或气象学，第二，构造学或地质学想象力。然后，本文研究了数字设备与类比设备之间的二分法，并质疑信息技术的现状及其理论基础。为了揭示言语信息的局限性，手动操作中虚拟能力的恢复成为焦点。还提出了网络混乱或空洞的重要性。本文的目的之一是要解决这样一个问题，即尽管有语义上的混乱和缺乏对等的区别，但在创造性想象力领域中如何弥合东方术语和西方思维之间的鸿沟。