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A third principle of symmetry forces us to consider both associations (additions of functionalities, materials, actors in a network) and dissociations. Indeed, in some cases, “the structuring element is simply the removal of one of the elements” of the network (Goulet and Vinck 2012, p. 197). This is what has been observed, for example, in the sports domain, with regard to the trajectories of objects that are innovative because of their lightness, the simplification of use allowed, etc. (Hallé et al. 2014; Soulé and Lefèvre 2016). We then speak of “withdrawal” innovations, which are structured by detachment, which in fact implies reconfigurations of the network. Withdrawal or reduction is the very objective of innovation, which Kimberly (1981), in the organizational context, calls exnovation (abandoning a practice or a product, such as the use of paper in a company). Innovation therefore amounts to opting out of something that is no longer deemed useful or sustainable (Goulet and Vinck 2017). Detachment can even concern a human actor, as in the case of exclusively female mountaineering groups (Ottogalli-Mazzacavallo and Boutroy 2020). This innovation of practice is indeed based on the progressive dissociation of men, especially in the high mountains, to enable an emancipatory and autonomous mountaineering experience, which is not without controversy or compromise.