On Transversal Creativities: Figures of a Sonic and Machinic Apparatus

This work theorises creativity as a transversal apparatus that cuts across disciplinary and material practices while reshaping subject-formation. Through practice-based research in sound and computational art, and in dialogue with mathematics, it follows how creative practice arranges relations and time as it produces novelty. A historical critique shows modern creativity’s alliance with creative capital and progressivist futurity; a contemporary analysis examines platform infrastructures and algorithmic capture. The argument emphasises contingency, indicating that transversal processes can disrupt normative arrangements yet also be appropriated by capitalist or exclusionary systems, with methodological implications for collaborative practice.