Agonistic Moderation

Stanisevski, Dragan

doi:10.1177/0095399714553730

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“…Personal indulgences had already been sinful and pleasure had long been the obstacle to responsibility ever since medieval European theological traditions banished pagan cults. The constraints go even further back, at least to the Classical philosophers who advised citizens to seek moderation in all things [85].…”

Section: The Blind Alley Of Rational Modernization: Weber's War On Plmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

Sommer

Sacco

2019

Sustainability

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Responding to Max Weber's dour predictions, we enlist Antonio Gramsci's optimism to suggest how culture can spike development. Weber's sociological focus took culture to mean shared beliefs and practices. As a culture that derives from the Protestant Ethic, capitalism waged a "war on pleasure." Weber warned that this unfeeling rationality would generate an "iron cage" to trap our humanity, but his book has been read, paradoxically, as a manual for the lock down. Gramsci, on the contrary, understood culture in its humanistic sense, as a field of aesthetic pleasure, innovation, and debate. For him, a precondition for transformational social change was the broad engagement of masses as empowered collectives (Weber favored charismatic leaders); and pleasure in idiosyncratic forms of artistic as well as rooted expression was the fuel for participating in personal and shared advances. This pleasure in art and collective interpretation contrasts with the exclusionary rituals of commodified pleasure typical of capitalist consumerism. Gramsci's confidence in the transformational role of creative culture provides a framework for understanding a new wave of inclusive artistic practices that originate in the Global South and that revive the arts as vehicles for active citizenship. Participatory art can re-enchant today's sorely disenchanted socio-cultural world of mature capitalism.

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Section: The Blind Alley Of Rational Modernization: Weber's War On Plmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

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Sacco

2019

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Khōra:An Inquiry Into Polytopian Philosophy and Cosmopolitan Governance

Stanisevski

2015

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands

2022

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Gene editing is an emerging technology with diverse applications in the making, including in livestock. While the technology is commonly represented as offering unbounded possibilities and societal benefit, it remains unclear how to characterise public views and the process through which responses are developed. Rather than simply being about individual attitudes, beliefs or preferences, we explicate an interpretative approach that seeks to understand how people make sense of the technology in the form of shared cultural idioms and stories. Based on five anticipatory focus group discussions with Dutch publics, we found the prevalence of five narratives shaping public talk, namely, technological fix, the market rules, in pursuit of perfection, finding the golden mean and governance through care. We explore the implications of these findings for governance and reflect on the virtues of sophrosyne and phronesis as offering ways to reconfigure the practice and politics of gene editing.

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Agonistic Moderation

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

Optimism of the Will. Antonio Gramsci Takes in Max Weber

Khōra:An Inquiry Into Polytopian Philosophy and Cosmopolitan Governance

Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands

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