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The Imaginary
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16 Apr 2004
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the social Imaginary, through the distinction relevance / opacity constitutes the form in that do autodescription the different systems, in its different means, contributing from that way to build what one can take as guaranteed reality for the individuals located in the environment.
Abstract: Recently, I have been challenged by the different paradoxes that assaulted me in the construction of the social Theory of the Imaginary and of an operative model of constructive analysis of Medias� products. It has taken me to it to rethinking the theoretical marks in those that the basic references of the social conceptualisation of the Imaginary ones could be located. Finally, after several discussions maintained with Chilean colleagues, I have been able to end up formulating the function that the Social Imaginary play in societies defined by the functionally differentiated systems. That role could put on in parallel with the distinction inclusion / exclusion that doesn�t generate a system functional matter but rather it works as metacode in each one of the systems to maintain an open and closed operation of each one of the functional differences. The Social Imaginary, through the distinction relevance / opacity constitutes the form in that do autodescription the different systems, in its different means, contributing from that way to build what one can take as guaranteed reality for the individuals located in the environment. Through that form the individuals can irritate to the system in order to produce more functional answers.
38 citations
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01 Oct 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, the Bodily Imaginary and Post-Lacanian Feminism: Reading the Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real Part II: 5. Queering The Phallus 6. Gay Desire and The Body Image 7. Colonial Desires and the Post-Colonial 'Subject' 8. Situating the Cultural Unconscious: Reading and Re-creating Myths and Memory
Abstract: Introduction: Postmodernism and the Bodily Imaginary Part I: 1. Psychoanalysis and Politics 2. Between Realist and Narcissistic Ego, or Between Experience and Text 3. Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism 4. Post-Lacanian Feminism: Reading the Symbolic, Imaginary and Real Part II: 5. Queering The Phallus 6. Gay Desire and The Bodily Imaginary 7. Colonial Desires and the Post-Colonial 'Subject' 8. Situating the Cultural Unconscious: Reading and Re-creating Myths and Memory
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the South Central Farmers enact a geo-body politics of knowledge that is consistently subverted, even by supporters, vis-a-vis modern-colonial rationality, and they succeeded in enacting a decolonial challenge, which compels us as scholars to rethink our approach to the Farmers' specific activism and Latin@ vernacular discourse generally.
Abstract: This essay focuses critical attention on one way that The Garden (2008) functions as a Latin@ vernacular discourse that serves to articulate the South Central Farmers to a decolonial politics operating through a kind of “border thinking.” Delinking themselves from the modern-colonial imaginary, I argue, the South Central Farmers enact a geo-body politics of knowledge that is consistently subverted, even by supporters, vis-a-vis modern-colonial rationality. Despite their apparent instrumental failure, the South Central Farmers succeeded in enacting a decolonial challenge, which compels us as scholars to rethink our approach to the Farmers’ specific activism and Latin@ vernacular discourse generally.
38 citations