The antinomies of the modern imaginary and the double dialectic of control

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The antinomies of the modern imaginary and the double dialectic of control

Craig Browne¹•Institutions (1)

University of Sydney¹

07 Dec 2020-Thesis Eleven (SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England)-Vol. 161, Iss: 1, pp 51-75

TL;DR: Castoriadis made a significant and distinctive contribution to the development of the notion of the dialectic of control and formulated an important reconc... as mentioned in this paper, which is the basis for the Dialectic of Control.

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Abstract: Cornelius Castoriadis made a significant and distinctive contribution to the development of the notion of the dialectic of control. In the first instance, Castoriadis formulated an important reconc...

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"The antinomies of the modern imagin..." refers background in this paper

...Further, the capitalist imaginary’s orientation and societal objectives can be seen to constitute the cultural horizon that shapes the ‘institutional clusters’, according to Anthony Giddens, of modernity: capitalism, industrialism, surveillance, and military violence (Giddens, 1985, 1990)....
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...…domains involves dialectics of control: industrialism is contested by the ecological movement, the workers’ movement struggles against capitalist domination, surveillance is contested by civil rights movements, and peace movements oppose and seek to regulate military violence (Giddens, 1985, 1990)....
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"The antinomies of the modern imagin..." refers background in this paper

...…but the imaginary’s constitution of forms of control through establishing orientations and generative matrixes of meaning has historically taken a variety of social-historical forms, such as through privileging the imaginary significations of the sacred and the pure (Durkheim, 1995; Dumont, 1972)....
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...Types of explicit control converge in their institution with the social imaginary, but the imaginary’s constitution of forms of control through establishing orientations and generative matrixes of meaning has historically taken a variety of social-historical forms, such as through privileging the imaginary significations of the sacred and the pure (Durkheim, 1995; Dumont, 1972)....
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...…but the imaginary’s constitution of forms of control through establishing orientations and generative matrixes of meaning has historically taken a variety of social-historical forms, such as through privileging the imaginary significations of the sacred and the pure (Durkheim, 1995; Dumont, 1972)....
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"The antinomies of the modern imagin..." refers background in this paper

...In particular, the dialectic of control represents an intersubjective theory of social conflict that is concerned with the balance between heteronomous dependency and autonomy in social relations (Giddens, 1979)....
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...This orientation is certainly the case for Giddens’s structuration theory conceptualization, and the qualities attributed by Castoriadis to the imaginary shows how the signification of control involves some compression of culture (Giddens, 1979)....
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