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Abstract: John Toth - The Space of Creativity: Hypermediating the Beautiful and the Sublime, December 20, 2005, This thesis will consider the creative process of the arts as a life method that awakens an awareness that develops thinking, aesthetic inquiry, creative activity and heuristic reflection of the beautiful and the sublime. Central to this argument is an examination of the disparate views between leaders in the field of education that pit logic against imagination and creativity. What does it mean to be a lifelong learner who contributes as a citizen in the twenty-first century? The argument for this thesis will consider the space of the sublime as the place of learning. The sublime coexists and challenges the notion of an ideal beauty. Within the sublime, abject media, failure, chance operations and doubt exist throughout the process of learning. The sublime is the doorway to learning: it reveals the limits of sense and reason which expose the boundary of what is known. Through the electronic apparatus of the computer, the Internet and hypermedia, new ways of learning are opened without a teacher. The conclusions of this thesis suggest that hypermediation will displace conventional literacy and reveals the sublime as a new space for lifelong learning,
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