ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the assumption that when the words, creative and creativity, are thought and spoken, a formal set of relations is affirmed. The subject(s) using them is (are), in the use, affiliated with, and even bound to, the object(s) described. This affiliation and binding is of a particular, and often unremarked, sort. The judgments which lead to a process being treated as "creativity", or to an artist or object being considered "creative" are invariably external judgments. The words represent considerations made from outside and made after the fact. The word "creative" takes for granted an opposition between the presumably problematic modes of production relating to the object in question and the ostensibly well-known, regulated, rule-bound modes of production by which ordinary objects are fashioned. The "creative" object is, then, regardless of its elegance, one which, on its face, or via its mode of production, is thought of as irregular and unruly.
