Effective claim-making innovates at the edges of familiar performance scripts

Evidence

Note the paradox of contentious claim-making: genuinely unfamiliar performances almost always misfire, but perfect repetition from one performance to the next breeds boredom and indifference on the parts of claimants and their objects alike. Effective contention does not resemble a marching band’s precision drills, but the clash of championship football teams. Habit does not explain the pattern of incessant innovation. Innovation within the script matters. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 265

Categorization

• XREF: This novelty-stability paradox is the same tension the reader probes in Tilly: if absorption narrows permitted scripts but allows innovation within them, subordinate politicization could be both channeled and actively regenerated. — connects to: Most contention strongly reuses familiar performance forms rather than innovating; Paralogy as a move differs from innovation as system improvement — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 429; Most innovations emerge from parallel developments and collective histories — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 681 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 265

Broader Connections

• Most innovations emerge from parallel developments and collective histories #expands (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 681
• Paralogy as a move differs from innovation as system improvement #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 429