Patrizia Violi proposes to consider a specific form of the arts du faire: the art du dire. According to her, semiotics has long neglected this form of meaning production: its textualist tradition has led it to privilege the analysis of already textualized products rather than the practices that generate meaning. The discipline, in other words, has focused…
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The Concept of Social Innovation and Its Theoretical Status
In their essay Social Innovation as Rehabiting, Kaie Kotov and Rasmus Pedanik examine the conceptual and theoretical grounds of what has become an increasingly popular research topic across the social sciences. Social innovation, they note, has acquired growing importance in both academic and political discourse, yet it still lacks a stable and coherent theoretical definition. The expression…

