Cultural Science读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 264页 | 2020 | Bloomsbury Academic |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 90.00 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-03-26 … | 34 |
Cultural Science introduces a new way of thinking about culture. Adopting an evolutionary and systems approach, the authors argue that culture is the population-wide source of newness and innovation; it faces the future, not the past. Its chief characteristic is the formation of groups or 'demes' (organised and productive subpopulation; 'demos'). Demes are the means for creating, distributing and growing knowledge. However, such groups are competitive and knowledge-systems are adversarial.
Starting from a rereading of Darwinian evolutionary theory, the book utilises multidisciplinary resources: Raymond Williams's 'culture is ordinary' approach; evolutionary science (e.g. Mark Pagel and Herbert Gintis); semiotics (Yuri Lotman); and economic theory (from Schumpeter to McCloskey).
Successive chapters argue that:
-Culture and knowledge need to be understood from an externalist ('linked brains') perspective, rather than through the lens of individual behaviour;
-Demes are created by culture, especially storytelling, which in turn constitutes both politics and economics;
-The clash of systems - including demes - is productive of newness, meaningfulness and successful reproduction of culture;
-Contemporary urban culture and citizenship can best be explained by investigating how culture is used, and how newness and innovation emerge from unstable and contested boundaries between different meaning systems;
-The evolution of culture is a process of technologically enabled 'demic concentration' of knowledge, across overlapping meaning-systems or semiospheres; a process where the number of demes accessible to any individual has increased at an accelerating rate, resulting in new problems of scale and coordination for cultural science to address.
The book argues for interdisciplinary 'consilience', linking evolutionary and complexity theory in the natural sciences, economics and anthropology in the social sciences, and cultural, communication and media studies in the humanities and creative arts. It describes what is needed for a new 'modern synthesis' for the cultural sciences. It combines analytical and historical methods, to provide a framework for a general reconceptualisation of the theory of culture - one that is focused not on its political or customary aspects but rather its evolutionary significance as a generator of newness and innovation.
作者简介约翰·哈特利（John Hartley），科廷大学教授、澳大利亚研究委员会会员、澳大利亚人文学会会员、英国皇家艺术学会会员、美国国际传播学会会员，2009年获澳大利亚教育贡献奖、北京文化和创意产业峰会个人荣誉奖；率先从文化视角研究大众媒介，研究数字时代的创意和文化；成就卓著，在欧美澳亚各地兼任大学教授，成果跨越新闻、文化与媒介等领域；专著甚丰，含《文化科学》《电视的真相》《解读电视》《传播与文化研究中的关键概念》《创意产业读本》《创意经济与文化》《文化研究简史》等。 贾森·波茨（Jason Potts），皇家墨尔本理工大学教授，专攻演化经济学、制度经济学、文化创意产业，任《制度经济学》和《革新》杂志副主编，2000年获熊彼特奖，著有《文化科学》《创意产业经济》《新演化经济学》《创意产业关键词》《创意产业与经济演化》等。
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