Adorno and Blumenberg

Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action

“…Instead, it is simply profitable to tap into dissatisfaction. When the profit motive has become the sole determining force behind cultural creation (Jay, 1984a, p. 122), offering market‐ and consumer‐friendly solutions to the world's problems is another profit‐making scheme.…”

Walking, talking, [Re-]imagining socio-ecological sustainability: Research on the move/moving research

“…The paper reflects on walking methods as embodied, relational, sensory, multi-modal, that enable us to access/say the unsayable; and involve the role of imagination and politics, to facilitate a radical democratic imaginary and potentially, in reflecting upon the experience with co-walkers, a radical democratic pedagogy (O’Neill and Einashe, 2019; O’Neill et al, 2020). The notion of moving research here is a deliberate double entendre, intended to be promiscuous (open) though not risqué (profane), including mobile methods (research on the move) and the affective turn in social research (moving research) where the capacity for empathy becomes central (Bennett, 2019) to practicing sustainability (Kuepers, 2019) responsibly (Foster, 2011; Makrakis and Kostoulas-Makrakis, 2021).…”

“…This is helpful to both work through the past and tell and analyse history in the present (O’Neill and Einashe, 2019). Another way of describing constellational thinking is to think of it as a ‘force field’ a ‘relational interplay’ of forces that ‘constitutes the dynamic and transmutational structure of complex phenomenon’(Jay, 1984: 14). Nicholsen (1997) described constellational thinking as ‘exact imagination’ and puts it this way: ‘exact imagination is confined by scholarship and science yet goes beyond the material by reconfiguring the material at hand’ (1997: 38).…”

“… 5. See O’Neill et al (2020) for a discussion about walking methods and the importance of convivial research and pedagogy that highlights interdependence, collective research, attuned to the relational, creative and affective aspects of learning.…”

Om den negativa kärleken

“…Den sene Freuds diskussion om strategier för att förena de naturliga drifter nas krav med den rådande samhällsordningen lämnade honom kall -varför anpassa sig till något som i sig självt är irrationellt, om nu ens intresse är att utforska irrationalitetens grunder? 13 En del kan tjäna på en fascistisk politik, men det är just i övergången till massrörelse som stödet till fascismen blir irrationellt. De flesta som stöder fascismen kommer trots allt att förlora på det.…”