Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany / Hannah Höch / 1919-1920 This Dada photomontage exemplifies bisociation through chaotic juxtaposition of unrelated images and texts from mass media, forcing violent collisions between political, cultural, and gendered frames to create satirical meaning. Arthur Koestler introduced the term bisociation in his 1964 book The Act of Creation to describe the cognitive moment when two prev

The most dangerous myth in language education today is not that creativity cannot be taught - it is that creativity has become optional. We have quietly accepted a world where advanced English speakers can produce flawless grammar while remaining incapable of saying anything that has not been said a thousand times before. The plateau is no longer measured by CEFR levels but by the death of conceptual daring: learners arrive at C2 with perfect conditional clauses yet freeze wh