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Originative Intellectual Worker

[info]cottontimer
8/8/05 11:42 pm
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Jacob the Cat
Writers are no longer just writers but, in H.G. Wells's term, "originative intellectual workers".

Finding a top-gun agent or publisher is all but impossible these days unless you subscribe to the block- and bonk-buster paradigm. On the other hand, the originative intellectual worker quickly masters a skill-set allowing proficiency across crafts and technologies. The OIW emerges on both sides of the track, as producer and consumer. In blogging it's almost impossible to separate the two.

~SYNTAGMA

I'd like to be an originative intellectual worker. It sounds both romantic and omnipotent at the same time. I've been trying to find more about this reference all day, but haven't succeeded. Has anyone else heard of "originative intellectual workers" before?
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  • [info]calypso72
    8/8/05 05:25 pm (UTC)
    I haven't heard that term before, but I was reading an article this weekend (I think in Time magazine but not sure) about how a number of pharmaceutical companies (and others) are hiring bloggers to maintain informational blogs that they host. It made me think of you.

    • [info]cottontimer
      8/9/05 08:32 am (UTC)
      Yup. Blogging is hot right now and so is writing for websites. Been seeing lots of opportunities, but don't think I should commit to anything until Stephen starts school. Don't want to stress myself out and fall short of expectations.

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    [info]mdmhvonpalj
    8/8/05 07:26 pm (UTC)
    Hmmm, sounds like double-plus-good-speak to me. Different author, I know, but it still points out that a 'philosophizer', either on one end or the other of the labor scale, is still a "great thinker" no matter what label you apply.

  • [info]qadira
    8/8/05 07:29 pm (UTC)
    Er, no I haven't. Maybe I'm just too far out of the literary loops of recent years.

    "Originative Intellectual Worker" sounds like the sort of thing you tell someone, they give you a blank stare, you then tell them what you do all day, and they respond with a sudden look of comprehension, "Oh, so you're a writer!"

    hehehe

    • [info]cottontimer
      8/9/05 08:34 am (UTC)
      haha! I don't think I would have the guts to tell someone I'm an "originative intellectual worker"! I already have a complex about telling people I'm a blogger. hehe
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