Bodily Entanglement: Bergson and Thresholds in the Sociology of Affect

Watson, Sean

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“…'Entanglement' has been used, for example, to characterise the affective relations and discontinuities between human bodies and other entities; 22 to make sense of settler identities in colonial and postcolonial contexts; 23 and to open up the relationships, similarities and intersections between human and non-human things. 24 But it is especially in science and technology studies (STS), and most particularly in feminist STS, that 'entanglement' has been put to work in the last decade or so.…”

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Entangling the Medical Humanities

Fitzgerald¹,

Callard²

2018

Edinburgh University Press

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The medical humanities are at a critical juncture. On the one hand, practitioners of this field can bask in their recent successes: in the UK, at least, what was once a loose set of intuitions – broadly about animating the clinical and research spaces of biomedicine with concepts and methods from the humanities – has become a visible and coherent set of interventions, with its own journals, conferences, centres, funding streams and students. On the other hand, the growth, coherence and stratification of this heterogeneous domain have raised the spectre of just what, exactly, the medical humanities is growing into. In particular, scholars have begun to worry that the success of the medical humanities is tied up with being useful to biomedicine, that the medical humanities has been able to establish itself only by appearing as the domain of pleasant (but more or less inconsequential) helpmeets.

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Entangling the Medical Humanities

Fitzgerald¹,

Callard²

2018

Edinburgh University Press

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“…Though Wallace stops short of calling Lawrence a "vitalist," he notes that Lawrence had encountered Bergson's ideas as early as 1911, in article by A. J. Balfour, entitled "Creative Evolution and Philosophic Doubt." For other considerations of Lawrence as a vitalist, seeLehan (1992) andWatson (2003).…”

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Automatic Modernism: D. H. Lawrence, Vitalism, and the Political Body

Wientzen

2013

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This article argues for the centrality of ideas of automatism and habit within the political and aesthetic life of literary modernism. D. H. Lawrence's characteristic interest in the raptures of sexuality and corporality are read in relation to shifts in the nature of political life, in particular the function of material conditioning within the institutions of the nation-state. The rise of such a political technology, this article suggests, was an important precondition for Lawrence's own emphasis on alternative categories of political life, most importantly the “primary cognition” of the body. Lawrence's sense of political embodiment placed him in fundamental accord with the work of the vitalist philosophers Henri Bergson and Georges Sorel. Sorel's notion of political myth in particular informs a reading of Lawrence's late novel The Plumed Serpent (1926), which enacts a vitalist drama of political embodiment. Considered by Lawrence to be his best novel, The Plumed Serpent enables a retrospective reading of Lawrence's formal method, including the value of readerly affect in his attempts to counter the habituating forces of mass modernity.

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“…As there is no reason to believe that Merrifield has overstated Lefebvre's contempt for Bergson, (5) there is no other option except to suggest that Lefebvre's own hatred was misdirected öor at least more appropriately directed to a false idea of Bergsonism, one that nevertheless is entering its second century. Contemporary research into Bergson's ideas has proved them to be far more complex than previously understood, and more adaptable to other disciplines than Bergson himself was prepared to articulate (Antliff, 1993;Burwick and Douglass, 1992;Deleuze, 2002Deleuze, [19662003a[19832003b[1985Grosz, 2004;Hatzenberger, 2003;Kennedy, 1987;Kumar, 1962;Linstead, 2003;Linstead and Mullarkey, 2003;McNamara, 1996;Mullarkey, 1999a;1999b;Olkowski, 2002;Papanicolau and Gunter, 1987;Power, 2003;Watson, 2003). Lefebvre, in fact, falls prey to the common misconception that…”

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Toward a Philosophy of the Urban: Henri Lefebvre's Uncomfortable Application of Bergsonism

Fraser

2008

Environ Plan D

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Although Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991) publicly and consistently eschewed the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), his writings in effect made great use of the latter's key ideas and method. Like Bergson's philosophy, Lefebvre's urban criticism denounced the spatialization of time and gave priority to lived experience over the abstractions employed by static intellectual or traditionally analytical models of experience. Throughout The Urban Revolution, The Production of Space, The Critique of Everyday Life, Volumes 1–3, and the writings posthumously collected in Rhythmanalysis, Lefebvre's urban philosophical project appropriated the ideas Bergson advanced in his three major works, Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, and Creative Evolution, through their application to the problems of social life—a de facto collaboration that Bergson never lived to appreciate and that Lefebvre would never recognize. This connection is important not only as a corrective to the scant attention paid to Lefebvre's work by philosophers, but also because it reinforces both thinkers' own emphases on interdisciplinarity and on reconciling theories of knowledge with theories of life. The combined work of the two philosophers suggests a philosophical basis for the current emphasis of theory in both cultural studies and human geography in that it stresses the importance of acknowledging movement, process, and mobilities in approaches to the problems of urban life. The composite of Bergson–Lefebvre provides the basis for articulating a philosophy of the urban.

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Bodily Entanglement: Bergson and Thresholds in the Sociology of Affect

Cited by 4 publications

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Entangling the Medical Humanities

Entangling the Medical Humanities

Automatic Modernism: D. H. Lawrence, Vitalism, and the Political Body

Toward a Philosophy of the Urban: Henri Lefebvre's Uncomfortable Application of Bergsonism

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