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dc.contributor.authorPotts, J.
dc.contributor.authorHartley, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:13:45Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:13:45Z
dc.date.created2015-05-14T20:00:36Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationPotts, J. and Hartley, J. 2014. What is Cultural Science? (And what it is not.). Cultural Science. 7 (1): pp. 34-57.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29559
dc.description.abstract

Hartley and Potts (2014) argue that cultural science represents a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of cultural structure, dynamics and use. We explain how this differs from the extant analytic frameworks of cultural studies, both as a research program and as a policy platform. The central idea is to reconceptualize what culture is, through a reinterpretation of what culture does. We argue that the semiotic productivity of culture makes groups – which we call demes – and demes make knowledge (what we call the externalism hypothesis); and the interaction of demes makes newness – new knowledge. Cultural science, then, is a new model of the cultural processes involved in socio-economic evolution and innovation of knowledge-making demes. The paper is in three sections, the first on the exhaustion of cultural studies; the second on the emergence of cultural science; and the third on some implications for cultural policy – illustrated by reference to Matthew Arnold’s policy on language preservation.

dc.publisherCultural Science
dc.relation.urihttp://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/issue/view/14
dc.titleWhat is Cultural Science? (And what it is not.)
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume7
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage34
dcterms.source.endPage57
dcterms.source.issn1836-0416
dcterms.source.titleCultural Science
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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