Paradigm shifters : tricksters and cultural science
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2010
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This paper seeks to link anthropological and economic treatments of the process of innovation and change, not only within a given ‘complex system’ (e.g. a cosmology; an industry) but also between systems (e.g. cultural and economic systems; but also divine and human systems). The role of the ‘Go-Between’ is considered, both in the anthropological figure of the Trickster (Hyde 1998) and in the Schumpeterian entrepreneur. Both figures parlay appetite (economic wants) into meaning (cultural signs). Both practice a form of creativity based on deception, ‘creative destruction’; renewal by disruption and needs-must adaptation. The disciplinary purpose of the paper is to try to bridge two otherwise disconnected domains – cultural studies and evolutionary economics – by showing that the traditional methods of the humanities (e.g. anthropological, textual and historical analysis) have explanatory force in the context of economic actions and complex-system evolutionary dynamics. The objective is to understand creative innovation as a general cultural attribute rather than one restricted only to accredited experts such as artists; thus to theorise creativity as a form of emergence for dynamic adaptive systems. In this context, change is led by ‘paradigm shifters’ – tricksters and entrepreneurs who create new meanings out of the clash of difference, including the clash of mutually untranslatable communication systems (language, media, culture). |
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Cultural Science |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/39684/1/c39684.pdf http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/issue/view/7/showToc Hartley, John (2010) Paradigm shifters : tricksters and cultural science. Cultural Science Journal, 3(1), pp. 1-19. |
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Copyright 2010 John Hartley |
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation; Creative Industries Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #200100 COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES #200200 CULTURAL STUDIES #cultural science #cultural studies #change #innovation #evolutionary economics |
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