Showing papers in "Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory in 2019"
TL;DR: In this article, the case of the oldest electric tramway of South America, in Rio de Janeiro, in order to study the spatial extent of affective bonds, is studied.
Abstract: This article draws from the case of the oldest electric tramway of South America, in Rio de Janeiro, in order to study the spatial extent of affective bonds. The current struggle for re-installatio...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify core themes in the literature -the inbetweeness of atmospheres, tuning space, the folding space-times and modes of engagement, and develop these themes further through an encounter with work in anthropology, architecture and ecological psychology.
Abstract: The concept of atmosphere is a way of emplacing affect and affect theory. Work in contemporary social geography has done much to demonstrate how elemental forces become enveloped in atmospheres. However it tends to under-theorise the role of historically structured socio-cultural forces and the modes of engagement of persons with the atmospheric. In this paper we identify core themes in the literature – the inbetweeness of atmospheres, tuning space, the folding space-times and modes of engagement. We then develop these themes further through an encounter with work in anthropology, architecture and ecological psychology. Reflections on fieldwork in a medium-secure forensic psychiatric hospital are then used to illustrate the application of atmospheric thinking to a particular setting. We conclude with a call for a renewed ‘ontographic imagination’.
20 citations
TL;DR: Precarity is widely regarded as a defining condition of advanced capitalist societies as discussed by the authors, and given its existentially troubling character and a range of movements condemning its social consequences, sever...
Abstract: Precarity is widely regarded as a defining condition of advanced capitalist societies. Given its existentially troubling character and a range of movements condemning its social consequences, sever...
19 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the interplay between various forms of self-measurement and affective processes in three female cancer patients' storytelling on Instagram is explored, and they argue that self measurement sho...
Abstract: This article explores the interplay between various forms of self-measurement and affective processes in three female cancer patients’ storytelling on Instagram. It argues that self-measurement sho...
17 citations
TL;DR: A lack of clarity remains about its definition, dimensions and application as mentioned in this paper, and recognition appears to be an illuminating concept for a..., though a lack of clear definition, dimension and application.
Abstract: Precarity and precarious work are widely debated concepts, though a lack of clarity remains about its definition, dimensions and application. Recognition appears to be an illuminating concept for a...
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TL;DR: The past decades have witnessed growing interest in the concept of recognition, in social movements as well as in social theory as discussed by the authors, and while the recognition turn has made recognition a cornerstone in s...
Abstract: The past decades have witnessed growing interest in the concept of recognition, in social movements as well as in social theory. While the ‘recognition turn’ has made recognition a cornerstone in s...
15 citations
TL;DR: In the sociology of the emotions, it has been common to approach emotions as socially constructed as discussed by the authors, and researchers have rightly asked how society and social processes shape emotional life, and this app...
Abstract: In the sociology of the emotions, it has been common to approach emotions as socially constructed. Researchers have rightly asked how society and social processes shape emotional life, and this app...
12 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on insights from digital media theory and design methodology to contribute to sociological and anthropological understandings of money, and postulate the rise of a new money-form.
Abstract: This article draws on insights from digital media theory and design methodology to contribute to sociological and anthropological understandings of money. It postulates the rise of a new money-form...
11 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate everyday self-tracking as a practice of self-related knowledge production, and find that selftracking activities are commonly narrated and imagined as productive of selfrelated knowle...
Abstract: This article investigates everyday self-tracking as a practice of self-related knowledge production. Self-tracking activities are commonly narrated and imagined as productive of self-related knowle...
11 citations
TL;DR: The ambiguities of abstraction were at the heart of critical approaches to the problems of modernity as mentioned in this paper, and abstraction, so fundamental to the modernist episteme, was seen to have alienated human beings.
Abstract: The ambiguities of abstraction were at the heart of critical approaches to the problems of modernity. Abstraction, so fundamental to the modernist episteme, was seen to have alienated human...
10 citations
TL;DR: The interview began in Hamburg and Berlin and continued virtually, as an active email exchange, between November 2017 and April 2018 as discussed by the authors, between the two countries, and the conversation was sparked by the recent and ongoing turn to...
Abstract: This interview began in Hamburg and Berlin and continued virtually, as an active email exchange, between November 2017 and April 2018. Our conversation was sparked by the recent and ongoing turn to...
TL;DR: The value of human plurality has come under threat by, among others, populist movements as mentioned in this paper, and political thinkers have recently turned to the political thought of ''populism'' to find illumination of our dark times.
Abstract: The value of human plurality has come under threat by, among others, populist movements. To find illumination of our dark times, political thinkers have recently turned to the political thought of ...
TL;DR: The authors explored an ontological version of "abstraction" as it manifests in the commonalities and differences across social scientific research events, drawing on a range of writings that focus on ontology.
Abstract: This paper explores an ontological version of ‘abstraction’ as it manifests in the commonalities and differences across social scientific research events. Drawing on a range of writings that focus ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the question of the constitution of behaviour and its effects on the observers and on those observed, in the case of a "direct load-control" experiment in the electric power system.
Abstract: This paper addresses the question of the constitution of behaviour and its effects on the observers and on those observed, in the case of a ‘direct load-control’ experiment in the electrici...
TL;DR: In this article, the location of affect in human experience is discussed by sittinguating the concept in relation to attention and to different degrees of propositional structuring, by bringing together extend...
Abstract: The article discusses the location of affect in human experience by situating the concept in relation to attention and to different degrees of propositional structuring. By bringing together extend...
TL;DR: This essay argues that methods become objects of research as purposeful things, in terms of their enrolment in the intentional structure of the experimental system, and observes a practical recursion, a dynamic of scientific reinvention, a ‘tuning’ of experimental systems that sheds light on the form of these systems’ historicity, their differential self-reproduction.
Abstract: Computational science is intrinsically interdisciplinary; the methods of one scientist may be the objects of study for another. This essay is an attempt to develop an interdisciplinary fram...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors locates affect in the ambivalent power relations of paid female domestic labour, by tracing the ways in which affects articulate social and employment status of domestic workers are affected.
Abstract: The present article locates affect in the ambivalent power relations of paid female domestic labour, by tracing the ways in which affects articulate social and employment status. As several...
TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of affective verticality is introduced as a way of interrogating particular dynamics in affective arrangements in right-wing times, and the gesture of elevation is key; it giv...
Abstract: The article develops the notion of affective verticality as a way of interrogating particular dynamics in affective arrangements in right-wing times. The gesture of elevation is key; it giv...
TL;DR: The creation of new forms of geo-social knowledge has become one of the imperatives to resist the so-called Anthropocene as discussed by the authors, and critical theorists have called for enhanced interdisciplinary coll...
Abstract: The invention of new forms of geo-social knowledge has become one of the imperatives to resist the so-called Anthropocene. Critical theorists have called for enhanced interdisciplinary coll...