Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism

Bernardo, Francesco Di

doi:10.20919/exs.5.2014.201

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“…This is not, or should not be, surprising. After all, capitalism today depends upon the creation of 'worlds' over and above the production of commodities, yet must at the same time modulate these 'worlds', lest they enable their inhabitants to envision alternative forms of social organisation (Gilbert, 2014). Channelling a desire for change back to the market via entrepreneurship is one such strategy, readily abetted by a media all too willing to glamorise entrepreneurship as the pinnacle of feminine success.…”

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By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship

O'Neill

2023

The Sociological Review

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Based in original ethnographic research, this article examines the motivations and experiences of those seeking to forge careers in the UK’s burgeoning wellness industry. As a movement-market centred around health-enhancement and encompassing a broad array of practices and products, this industry has recently grown to prominence in Britain, driven significantly by the aspirational economies of social media. While the promise of wellness is manifold – including, most obviously, that of health and well-being – here I examine its operation in relation to questions of work and employment. Drawing on interviews with those who already work or aspire to work in wellness – generally on a self-employed basis, but often operating under the sign of a more glamorised ‘entrepreneurship’ – I explore why women are drawn to participate in this arena in a professional as well as personal capacity. I focus in particular on the lure of wellness work among participants who had already established careers in other settings, for whom the transition entails relinquishing relative economic security to instead pursue an inherently risky pathway. This research reflects critically on existing accounts of ‘passionate work’ by arguing that wellness entrepreneurship functions as both an individual and collective endeavour. In doing so it grapples with the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship as a feminised mode of self-employment, situating this analysis within the continuing aftermath of feminism in an era marked by new feminist visibilities and discourses of female empowerment.

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By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship

O'Neill

2023

The Sociological Review

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“…(GILBERT, 2014, p. 146, tradução nossa). 1 Dessa forma, os estudos sobre a virada do afeto são focados na influência do afeto nas experiências do sujeito, que segundo Gilbert (2014) pode ser considerado o ponto em que um sujeito influencia o outro, e essa influência pode constituir uma capacidade de agir. As relações de afeto, necessariamente, se constituem da capacidade de influenciar outros corpos ou mentes, podendo interferir na capacidade de agir dos sujeitos (SPINOZA, 2019;GILBERT, 2014;MASSUMI, 1995).…”

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“…1 Dessa forma, os estudos sobre a virada do afeto são focados na influência do afeto nas experiências do sujeito, que segundo Gilbert (2014) pode ser considerado o ponto em que um sujeito influencia o outro, e essa influência pode constituir uma capacidade de agir. As relações de afeto, necessariamente, se constituem da capacidade de influenciar outros corpos ou mentes, podendo interferir na capacidade de agir dos sujeitos (SPINOZA, 2019;GILBERT, 2014;MASSUMI, 1995). Essas relações de afeto, possivelmente, estão relacionadas as dimensões da experiência, que acontecem antes, durante ou após as interações sociais entre os sujeitos, por serem conjuntos de ações e atividades que afetam diretamente o contexto no qual o sujeito se encontra e essas interações podem influenciar na tomada de decisões.…”

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Framing Britney Spears: Como a Midiatização Age Sobre a Cultura De Fãs Intermediada Pelas Relações De Afeto

Ferreira¹,

Colpo²

2023

Rev. Contemp.

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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo entender como a midiatização age sobre a cultura de fãs intermediada pelas relações de afeto. Parte-se da hipótese de que a comunidade de fãs quando articulada pode mudar o enquadramento da mídia, demonstrando que o processo de midiatização está em constante transformação e ligado aos movimentos da sociedade. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados no artigo foram pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória, bibliográfica e documental para fundamentar a base teórica da pesquisa, e por fim para realizar as análises de enquadramentos midiáticos e relações de afeto da TV. Também foram adicionadas a metodologia os procedimentos de análises de enquadramentos e análises de afetos sócio-políticos. As análises preliminares evidenciaram que o movimento de fãs Free Britney despertou a atenção da mídia, visto que praticamente não foram encontradas reportagens acerca de Britney Spears ou sobre o movimento nos anos anteriores ao lançamento do primeiro documentário que aborda sobre o movimento dos fãs, e suas estratégias para tornarem-se visíveis para a mídia. Nota-se também a potencialização de determinados afetos nas reportagens para atingir o público-telespectador.

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“…2 2 Barlow, involved in the 1960s band The Grateful Dead, Californian free speech activist, and internet pioneer, embodies one of the most obvious connections between 1968 counterculture and technological utopianism, and he must be read as just one of many protagonists that positioned themselves as political entities of the future, while employing language and propositions that very much drew upon problematic framings of the past. Barlow is considered an icon of the early net politics movement (Barbrook and Cameron 1995;Goldsmith and Wu 2006) and an important figure of internet history who enjoyed fame and popularity beyond the borders of the United States. The centrality of his persona is important in understanding the influence of his manifesto.…”

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“…In this sense, solidarity becomes relational in terms of the ways in which a body can be affected by difference -meaning that one should fight for an other not only because the other may not be able to speak, but also because this othering is not frozen in time -and the modular comes to affect and differentiate more and more people. I thus propose that what binds groups together need not be identity, but a "set of shared sentiments and sensations" (Gilbert 2014) that arise from an acknowledgment of intimacies and vulnerabilities.…”

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Feminist Solidarities after Modulation

Morais dos Santos Bruss

2023

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Feminist Solidarities after Modulation produces an intersectional analysis of transnational feminist movements and their contemporary digital frameworks of identity and solidarity. Engaging media theory, critical race theory, and Black feminist theory, as well as contemporary feminist movements, this book argues that digital feminist interventions map themselves onto and make use of the multiplicity and ambiguity of digital spaces to question presentist and fixed notions of the internet as a white space and technologies in general as objective or universal. Understanding these frameworks as colonial constructions of the human, identity is traced to a socio-material condition that emerges with the modernity/colonialism binary. In the colonial moment, race and gender become the reasons for, as well as the effects of, technologies of identification, and thus need to be understood as and through technologies. What Deleuze has called modulation is not a present modality of control, but is placed into a longer genealogy of imperial division, which stands in opposition to feminist, queer, and anti-racist activism that insists on non-modular solidarities across seeming difference. At its heart, Feminist Solidarities after Modulation provides an analysis of contemporary digital feminist solidarities, which not only work at revealing the material histories and affective "leakages" of modular governance, but also challenges them to concentrate on forms of political togetherness that exceed a reductive or essentialist understanding of identity, solidarity, and difference.

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Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism

Cited by 6 publications

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By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship

By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship

Framing Britney Spears: Como a Midiatização Age Sobre a Cultura De Fãs Intermediada Pelas Relações De Afeto

Feminist Solidarities after Modulation

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