"Cranial
Gunk" is a term coined by educator and creative
consultant, Vincent Young, to refer to creative ideas yielded
during ill-timed moments of inspiration. These are ideas without
a home at the time of their inception.
From the
Oxford English Dictionary:
Cranial meaning being of the skull especially the part enclosing the brain
and Gunk meaning viscous or liquid material.
Cranial Gunk is the viscous material that undulates underneath the skull especially the part enclosing the brain.
As for Saving
the World Through Nonsense, it is Camus
and his "philosophy of the absurd." It is the conflict
between human kind's "appetite for the absolute and for unity"
and "the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and
reasonable principle."
When you are saving the world through nonsense,
you are pondering its incongruities.
The Cranial Gunk Web site samples
Vincent's current writing and his past works. Unless
otherwise specified, all materials on this site and its blogs
(Cranialgunk.org
and K2Twelve.org)
are original works by Vincent.
