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Looking for fun in Cultural Science

Published in Cultural Science Journal

There has been a tension in Cultural Studies between those authors who see fun as important; and those who see it as a distraction. This tension has been played out around the concepts of amusement, distraction, pleasure, celebration, playfulness and desire. I think that fun is important. As we move from Cultural Studies to Cultural Science, I want...

‘The Future is an Open Future.’ Cultural Studies at the End of the ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Beginning of the ‘Ch...

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Identity Economics and the Creative Economy, Old and New

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I propose to associate the recent approaches to the economics of identity (Akerlof and Kranton, Davis) with the social network model of creative industries developed by Potts, Cunningham, Hartley and Ormerod. This implies that the latter just highlights a special case of the more general phenomenon that all economic activity is simultaneously invol...

Economic evolution, identity dynamics and cultural science

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This paper introduces the concept of identity dynamics to evolutionary economic analysis. The extant literature on the economics of identity is reviewed and integrated into the micro- meso-macro model of evolutionary economic analysis. This model of identity dynamics serves to both generalise extant concern with the economics of identity as well as...

Creative industries & cultural science: A definitional odyssey

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This paper argues that the definition of cultural science depends on the definition of creative industries. The problem, however, is that unlike the definition of evolutionary economics, complexity science and new cultural studies, which are also elements of cultural science, the creative industries suffer multiple non-commensurable definitions. Th...

Creative Industries: fashion versus reason

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Social network analysis of non-economic rules

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Notes for a Presentation: Historical Social Science as a Science of Culture

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Building Creative Capacity Building in University Graduates: What we can learn from boids and voids

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This paper draws on recent computing and social organizational research to open up new possibilities for constructing learning environments that optimise opportunities for university students (and, indeed, their teachers) to work as members of dynamic creative teams. Given that the challenge of setting up a learning environment that fosters such a ...

Creative Destruction : Lessons for Science and Innovation Policy from the Rise of the Creative Industries – Day 1 Sessio...

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