- Creative destruction New innovations must sometimes come at the cost of maintaining the status quo.
- Representation The depiction of an idea can be visual, but it can also rely on symbols or other ideas.
- Genre Creative expressions tend to be grouped according to socially constructed norms; while a work can play with or bend genre, it can't exist outside of genre.
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