The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory
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...My purpose is modest, to show that application of some rudimentary concepts and propositions derived from a rather fragmentary body of theory – for theories of practice are very heterogeneous, as even their most ardent exponents admit (Schatzki et al., 2001) – provides some new insights into how consumption is organized and how it might best be analysed....
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...On the one hand, theorists have argued that what is taken to be ‘social structure’ is itself constituted by culture (see Sewell 1985, 1992; Meyer and Rowan 1983; Biernacki 1995)....
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...When Manuel De Landa (1991:30), drawing upon Deleuze and Guattari (1987), says that ‘tracking the [machinic] phylum....
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...When Manuel De Landa (1991:30), drawing upon Deleuze and Guattari (1987), says that ‘tracking the [machinic] phylum...involves discovering the “emergent properties” of different combinations of materials: that is, any physical property that arises from an assemblage of parts, but that is not present in the parts taken separately,’ he is moving along the same lines as Schivelbusch’s remarks on shock and metal fatigue. There is a notion of discontinuity and nonlinearity here in the notion of emergent phenomena that is a useful antidote to the gradualist images that attach themselves to notions like Karin Knorr Cetina’s old idea of ‘tinkering’ (1981), or my metaphor of ‘tuning....
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