Creative Practices/Resistant Acts

Embodied metaphors and creative "acts".

Creativity is a highly sought-after skill. Prescriptive advice for inspiring creativity abounds in the form of metaphors: People are encouraged to "think outside the box", to consider a problem "on one hand, then on the other hand", and to "put two and two together" to achieve creative breakthroughs. These metaphors suggest a connection between concrete bodily experiences and creative cognition...

Creative Acts of Translation: James Boyd White's Intellectual Integration

Measuring the Results of Creative Acts in R&D: Literature Review and Perspectives

In their work on the C-K theory, Le Masson et al talk about the passage from R&D to RID, claiming that R&D in the era of innovation must revise its practices to adapt to the changes that have given birth to this new industrial paradigm. The authors speak of ̳performance logic‘ as an incontrovertible step in this evolution without going any further into their thoughts on the matter. Only a few s...

SEQUENTIALLY COMPACT S-ACTS

‎‎The investigation of equational compactness was initiated by‎ ‎Banaschewski and Nelson‎. ‎They proved that pure injectivity is‎ ‎equivalent to equational compactness‎. ‎Here we define the so‎ ‎called sequentially compact acts over semigroups and study‎ ‎some of their categorical and homological properties‎. ‎Some‎ ‎Baer conditions for injectivity of S-acts are also presented‎.

On $GPW$-Flat Acts

In this article, we present $GPW$-flatness property of acts over monoids, which is a generalization of principal weak flatness. We say that a right $S$-act $A_{S}$ is $GPW$-flat if for every $s in S$, there exists a natural number $n = n_ {(s, A_{S})} in mathbb{N}$ such that the functor $A_{S} otimes {}_{S}- $ preserves the embedding of the principal left ideal ${}_{S}(Ss^n)$ into ${}_{S}S$. We...