A philosophy of interstices: Thinking subjects and societies from Whitehead's philosophy

Debaise, Didier

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“…As composições são relações de força, de experimentação de relações e, ao mesmo tempo, são circunstâncias do acontecimento. Voltar-se para as forças é considerar as relações como "entre" seres que afetam permanentemente a condição de ser, um entre como espaço/tempo de um intervalo, um intervalo vazio, porém no qual se encontra a produção de vida, a produção de acontecimentos (Debaise, 2013). As forças são as condições de variação das formas/matérias, que as retiram de sua preexistência e fixação; as forças são os verbos no infinitivo -viver, resistir, afirmar.…”

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“…É um vazio de formas, porém, é um vazio aberto ao acontecimento, e é nesse intervalo/interstício que a originalidade acontece. A abertura ao acontecimento diz respeito à potência de conexões inéditas que podem produzir-se, por exemplo, como explica Didier Debaise (2013), no intervalo entre o raio-trovão. Nesse intervalo, os acontecimentos dependem das conexões que se estendem nesse curto espaço-tempo, são condições de afetação de diferentes corpos que se encontram nesse instante entre luz e som, um instante de silêncio, mas um silêncio que tem um ritmo.…”

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Psychology of health: articulations between life and politics

Bernardes

Marques

2016

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ResumoO objetivo deste artigo é pensar a Psicologia da Saúde a partir de articulações entre vida e política. O foco da discussão está em um exercício que permita considerar vida e política para problematizar a relação entre Psicologia e Saúde, efetuando uma certa torção no pensamento. O campo de análise ampara-se na Psicologia Social, mais especificamente no pós-estruturalismo, em um diálogo com a Filosofia. Pensar com a vida na Psicologia da Saúde é considerar uma orientação, uma figura de pensamento que afirme o excesso -o excesso de produção de vida; não mais se há ou não saúde, mas o que se passa com a vida, de que modo a própria vida acontece no que diz respeito à variação das formas e à afirmação da vida, uma política da vida. IntroduçãoO objetivo deste artigo é pensar a Psicologia da Saúde a partir de articulações entre vida e política. O foco da discussão está em um exercício que permita considerar vida e polí-tica para problematizar a relação entre Psicologia e Saúde. A necessidade desse espaço de problematização se faz por elementos que compõem atualmente o campo da Psicologia da Saúde e como estes podem ser torcidos para se pensar de um modo um pouco distinto, na medida em que se modificam os intercessores. Neste sentido, o artigo intenciona contribuir para as discussões que autores do campo da Psicologia da Saúde (Spink, 2010a;Traverso-Yépez, 2001) tem feito a partir da análise das heranças que a ciência mo-

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Psychology of health: articulations between life and politics

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2016

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“…Process theory establishes this common ground for all phenomena. However, although it is a common ground with no actual existence aside from the analytical tool through which it works, it nonetheless enables analyses tracing the trajectories defining 'a society as physical or as living, a reality as sensory or ideal, real or imagined' (Debaise, 2013). Whitehead differentiates between physical and living societies in terms of how they are affected by their environment and the exchanges, destructions and transformations occurring within them.…”

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Exploring sociomaterial mediations of human subjectivity

Schraube

Sørensen

2013

Subjectivity

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Auguste Rodin's bronze sculpture Le Penseur (The Thinker) from 1902 presented an image of Dante deep in thought, pondering The Divine Comedy. The naked sculpture emphasizes how Dante's heroic mind created this masterpiece independently, solely equipped with his bare human faculties, without instruments, without techniques, without social relations, even without clothing. In popular culture, the sculpture has come to symbolize the (gendered) subjectivity of genius, an autonomous, pure and purely individual (male) subject, an ideal worthy of emulation. In line with former volumes of Subjectivity (for example, Blackman et al, 2008), this special issue challenges such individualistic and mentalist visions of the human and contributes to a contextual understanding of human subjectivity.Of the multiplicity of aspects that have to be taken into account when exploring subjectivity, this special issue goes beyond a focus on the social and societal world and bare human interrelations, and scrutinizes the material world and relations between social beings and technologies, things and materials. Our aim is to invite readers to engage in a broad discussion on how to systematically include technology and materiality in the study of subjectivity. To stimulate that debate, we have collected six articles in this special issue that are each deeply involved with the theoretical, epistemological and empirical concerns of how subjectivity can be conceptualized and explored as a genuinely sociomaterial phenomenon. Together, the papers provide insights into how relations between the social and the material, and indeed the sociomaterial, can be approached, drawing on traditions of thought ranging from psychoanalysis, cultural-historical activity theory, critical psychologies, post-structuralism and feminist theories to science and technology studies (STS), actor-network theory (ANT), post-phenomenology and speculative philosophy. Aside from providing insights into individual approaches, we believe that the way these papers and approaches speak to r

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“…This view is consistent with the recognition that organizations emerge from relations that are established between or through entities, irrespective of their nature, as “each implies the other so that they exist in a relationship of betweenness rather than as separate terms” (Cooper, 2005). In other words, rather than define organizations as a collection of material and social items, we should look for it in the interstices (Debaise, 2013) and embrace their “monstrous” (Thanem, 2006) and “inhuman” nature (Hietanen et al, 2020).…”

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The organization’s synaptic mode of existence: How a hospital merger is many things at once

Bencherki

Elmholdt²

2020

Organization

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Different perspectives on organizations have alternatively sorted them on the side of the social / human / linguistic or that of the material / non-human / technical, reducing the question of what an organization may be to attempts to (re)connect these two realms. Literature adopting a relational view, however, has offered a way out of this opposition, by embracing the multiplicity of beings that may make up organizations. We extend this approach by engaging with French philosopher Étienne Souriau’s discussion of modes of existence to suggest that organizations are “synaptic,” which means they exist in the passages between modes, as they articulate the actions of entities existing under different modalities. By analyzing the case of a hospital merger in Denmark, we show that this work of articulation amounts to organizing, and that viewing organizations as synaptic recognizes not only their ontic pluralism, but also their existential pluralism. By doing so, our study contributes to relational understandings of what organizing means and provides a sensitivity to the politics involved in deciding who or what may exist within organizations.

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A philosophy of interstices: Thinking subjects and societies from Whitehead's philosophy

Cited by 20 publications

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Psychology of health: articulations between life and politics

Psychology of health: articulations between life and politics

Exploring sociomaterial mediations of human subjectivity

The organization’s synaptic mode of existence: How a hospital merger is many things at once

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