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Mast, Jason (2013) Cultural theory and its spaces for invention and innovation. Mind & Society, Volume 12 (Number 1). pp. 23-33. doi:10.1007/s11299-013-0120-x
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11299-013-0120-x
Abstract
This article approaches the topics of invention and innovation by way of cultural theory. Building on the works of Ferdinand de Saussure and John Austin, the article offers definitions of invention and innovation in semiotic and performative terms. It conceptualizes invention as a process of resignification, and frames innovation as a felicitous performative. Structuralist theory appears to foreclose the potential for these two terms to exist in the empirical world. This article explores these barriers but also locates conceptual spaces for invention and innovation, and identifies these phenomena as they occur in contemporary empirical sites.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Other > Institute of Advanced Study Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Mind & Society | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
| ISSN: | 1593-7879 | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 12 | ||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 23-33 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11299-013-0120-x | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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