Thinking things

Connor, Steven

doi:10.1080/09502360903471706

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“…In ‘Thinking Things’, an essay responding to and summarising contributions to a ‘thingly turn’ in critical theory, Steven Connor identifies ANT as ‘the most important of the influences’ in a ‘new thingly disposition’ that sees things as ‘intimately involved with and expressive of [the human]’. ANT ‘follows up the hunch that objects and subjects may in fact be reciprocally constitutive’ . Connor stresses the acknowledged Latourian borrowing of the idea of the ‘quasi‐object’ from Michel Serres.…”

Section: Continuitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Knot thinking

Blacklock¹

2014

Critical Quarterly

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Section: Continuitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Knot thinking

Blacklock¹

2014

Critical Quarterly

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“…Thinking about thinking has captured the interest of many philosophers over the years. The ever familiar, "cogito ergo sum" or "I think therefore I am" is credited to Descartes (Connor, 2010) in 1637. This is evidence enough that thinking has been on the minds of great philosophers for years and the search for philosophical discussions related to thinking yielded an enormous number of references.…”

Section: Philosophy Of Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Paradoxes abound in the concept, thinking. Connor (2010) wrote about thought bubbles. These bubbles initially appear empty of content; they are "the possibility of thoughts without a thinker" (p. 15), until the thought appears in the largest bubble.…”

Section: Thinking and Humanbecomingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking Unleashed

Condon

2012

Nurs Sci Q

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As the nursing profession continues to expand, the tendency to think based on the medical model also seems to be increasing. The thinking that is currently taught in nursing curricula is well known as critical thinking. However, over the years, the numerous attempts to revise and redefine critical thinking indicate awareness, by educators and members of the profession, of its limitations. The author of this column discusses some of these limitations, while proposing a more open and transparent way of thinking for nurses based upon humanbecoming ontology involving the emerging now, the resurrection of listening and silence, and contemplative thought.

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“…Massumi in McKim (2009, page 4) Things have become more prevalent in research across a range of disciplines in recent years. Connor (2009) has detected within philosophy and cultural studies a "thingly turn" (page 1) whilst in history Trentmann (2009) has proclaimed that "Things are back" (page 283). Within the social sciences things have also become a topic for discussion.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Not a Drama: Things Affect in Herbert Read's the Innocent Eye

Ashmore¹

2013

Environ Plan D

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This paper attempts to rethink the role of things in the ongoing constitution of life. It seeks to build upon existing accounts of things in the social sciences where the measure of things is taken in their capacity to trigger an emotional response in a human subject, arguing that it is also necessary to consider things where they do not disrupt and are not registered emotionally. It is argued that things can be usefully considered as a continual series of affective 'micro-shocks' working to generate affective atmospheres. These premises are explored through a brief empirical excursion into an autobiographical account of childhood life, Herbert Read's The Innocent Eye (1933). Read's account is sensitive to the role of things in life and adopts what might be understood as a stance of 'childlike wonder' towards a world full of things, where the human-as-thing is in astate of becoming in the midst of these. The paper concludes by reflecting on the implications of this discussion for three key issues: first, the usefulness of understanding things as affective; second, the thing-ness of things beyond their emotional rendering; third, the importance of experimentation in the reception and narration of things for better accounting for the work done by things.

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Thinking things

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

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Not a Drama: Things Affect in Herbert Read's the Innocent Eye

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