Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems
© The Author(s) 2014. This article has two aims. The first is to make the case that the ‘universe of the mind’ imagined by Yuri Lotman may be considered as a foundational model for cultural evolution (population-wide, dynamic, autopoietic, self-organising adaptation to changing environments). The se...
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| description | © The Author(s) 2014. This article has two aims. The first is to make the case that the ‘universe of the mind’ imagined by Yuri Lotman may be considered as a foundational model for cultural evolution (population-wide, dynamic, autopoietic, self-organising adaptation to changing environments). The second aim is to take forward a model of culture derived from Lotman’s work – a model I call ‘the clash of systems’ – in order to apply it to creative industries research. Such a move has the salutary effect of putting the ‘universe of the mind’ literally in its place. That place, now, predominantly, is in the city. Thus, the article uses Lotman’s model of the semiosphere to link different complex systems, principally the semiosphere with that of the city, in order to explore the productive potential of encounters – clashes – between different systems. Applying these insights to the field of creative industries research, the article proposes that creative culture in the globalised, urban and web-connected era can be characterised as ‘urban semiosis’. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-411952017-09-13T14:09:29Z Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems Hartley, John © The Author(s) 2014. This article has two aims. The first is to make the case that the ‘universe of the mind’ imagined by Yuri Lotman may be considered as a foundational model for cultural evolution (population-wide, dynamic, autopoietic, self-organising adaptation to changing environments). The second aim is to take forward a model of culture derived from Lotman’s work – a model I call ‘the clash of systems’ – in order to apply it to creative industries research. Such a move has the salutary effect of putting the ‘universe of the mind’ literally in its place. That place, now, predominantly, is in the city. Thus, the article uses Lotman’s model of the semiosphere to link different complex systems, principally the semiosphere with that of the city, in order to explore the productive potential of encounters – clashes – between different systems. Applying these insights to the field of creative industries research, the article proposes that creative culture in the globalised, urban and web-connected era can be characterised as ‘urban semiosis’. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41195 10.1177/1367877914528120 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Hartley, John Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems |
| title | Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems |
| title_full | Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems |
| title_fullStr | Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems |
| title_short | Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems |
| title_sort | urban semiosis: creative industries and the clash of systems |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41195 |