ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the processes of artistic creation, focusing on specific theoretical and methodological problems. It provides conceptual tools for research on nonstandardized activities and is open for contingent, particular, and idiosyncratic aspects that have been difficult to grasp thus far. The chapter is an empirical study of literary writing processes, which does not simply exemplify application of theoretical considerations, but, goes beyond this to refine ideas from theory and practical research. The concept of knowing, which is relevant in every practical activity, such as in process of artistic creation, differs from the customary concept of knowledge. In line with this view, non-human entities consequently also possess and generate knowledge this is a well-known basic assumption of the theory of artificial intelligence. There has been extensive empirical research into practical knowing-especially in sociology of work and occupation. On the one hand, there has been investigation of incorporation and internalization processes and their effects; and on the other hand, the human-machine relationship.
