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- Abrahamsson, Sebastian, 1979-
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An actor network analysis of constipation and agency: : Shit happens
- 2014
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 7:2, s. 111-130
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As of late, claims have been made in social and political theory that agency is neither a property of subjects nor of objects, but is instead an emergent effect of constellations or assemblages – that agency takes place ‘between’ various things. The question that follows is how to then account for what happens and what to make of the ‘betweenness’ of agency. The answer offered by this article is to trace and situate agency empirically through practices. Exploring the happening and non-happening of a particular object – shit – I show that for things to happen, a lot of work has to be done. By evoking three examples of constipated bodies, I show that while the work that has to be done is different, and that the actors involved are diverse, agency is located in practices.
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- Altermark, Niklas, et al.
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Visualizing the included subject : photography, progress narratives and intellectual disability
- 2018
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In: Subjectivity. - : Palgrave Macmillan. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 11:4, s. 287-302
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- By examining photographic depictions of subjects labeled as ‘intellectually disabled’, this article theorizes how photography performs the ideological function of producing narratives of historical progression. Recurrent representations of, on the one hand, a dark past of state institutionalization and repression and, on the other hand, the present as a time when intellectually disabled people are active, included and happy, function to locate oppression in a bygone era, which effectively obscures how power has transformed rather than disappeared. This relates to how the narrative break between the past exclusion and present inclusion conceals an inherent paradox in the constitution of intellectually disabled subjectivity; at the same time, members of this group are both included by citizenship and classified as lacking the necessary characteristics of the ideal citizen.
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- Brock, Maria
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A psychosocial analysis of reactions to Pussy Riot : Velvet Revolution or Frenzied Uteri
- 2016
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 9:2, s. 126-144
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Russian reactions to Pussy Riot’s performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2012 indicated that a collective nerve had been hit. This article seeks to explain the surge of public outrage following Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ through a psychosocial analysis of Russian media debates surrounding the case. By focusing on the negative responses, the following discussion investigates what such a ‘resistance to resistance’ might signify, and how it can point to latent forms of identification. It examines the public’s fixation with the group’s name, as well as the prevalence of fantasmatic enactments of violence in media discussions. Results suggest that in their rejection of the group’s performance, participants in the debate found ways of both shifting the threat Pussy Riot represents, and of once again ‘enjoying the nation’.
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- Brunila, Kristiina, et al.
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Anxiety and the making of research(ing) subjects in neoliberal academia
- 2018
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 11:1, s. 74-89
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on the crafting of seven fictional stories, the making of academic subjects in universities in times of neoliberal ethos is examined. The simultaneous configuration of subjects and objects of research is grasped in the term research(ing) subjects. Neoliberal governing generates the affect of anxiety as a socially manufactured intensity connected to precarity. We claim that the power effects of neoliberal configurations through the affect of anxiety is a particular governing strategy of subjectivation, and that its effects in making both researching and research subjects direct toward an economic logic where the self of academics and their work is shaped as insufficient. Putting the gaze on research(ing) subjects and anxiety is a way to disclosing the public secret of governing through affect and thus reimagining possibilities for resistance and meaningful academic work.
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- Gerlach, Joe, et al.
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Geophilosophy round table
- 2023
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X.
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This round table originated in an online discussion to launch the Geophilosophy Special Issue, held on 14th December 2022. In what follows, Joe Gerlach offers an extended commentary on each of the papers, with responses from the contributors to the Special Issue.
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- Keating, Thomas P., et al.
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Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth
- 2022
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 15:3, s. 93-108
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The relationship between ‘philosophy’ and the ‘geo’ has received renewed attention with the rise of the terrestrial and the planetary as leitmotifs for thinking about the collective subjectivation of particular kinds of world. In some of these conversations, this relationship is developed to consider how social collectives emerge with the production of particular kinds of territorial abstraction. Three decades since Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari published What is Philosophy?, book that has a lasting legacy in developing geophilosophy as a particular mode of transcendental empirical enquiry, this special issue revisits the relationship between geophilosophy and the production of an alternative sense of the earth. In this introduction, we approach geophilosophy in its pluralism by showing how the concept does not only concern the question of how to retain a sense of difference and contingency in thought, but also concerns a mode of enquiry that presents opportunities to experiment with alternative forms of collective subjectivation. Assaying the legacy of Deleuze and Guattari’s geophilosophy on contemporary forms of earth-thinking, the article identifies the unique demands and geophilosophical possibilities taken up by the contributors to this issue that question how to recuperate another sense of the earth.
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- Lauri, Johanna, 1976-
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Social movements, squatting and communality : ethical practices and re‐subjectification processes
- 2019
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 12:2, s. 154-170
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores openings for re-subjectification in a case of a house squat for free culture. Combining Lacanian discourse theory and the ‘ontology of political possibilities’, I explore how political subjectivities might (trans)form during such a process. Through interviews with participating squatters, the analysis suggests that this theoretical and methodological framing can capture moments of re-subjectification that are often overlooked. Via the performance of democratic values, a community knowledge became embodied in the subjects, which arguably carries the possibility of a redirection of desire, away from individualism and towards cultivating their political subjects towards communality. The squat can be read as a process of cultivating a shared identification with, and desire for, commonality, democracy and the possibility of a different relationship with the participants’ political lives. This analysis thus contribute to acknowledging openings for re-subjectification in cases that at first glance are dismissed as failures.
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- Olsson, Josefin
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Masculine enjoyment problematizing subjectification through norm critique as a response to climate change
- 2024
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer Nature. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 31:1, s. 79-96
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article problematizes subjectification through the practice of norm critique. The study builds on interviews with some of the key initiators and participants in a project working norm critically with men and masculinity in relation to gender equality and climate change in Sweden. Through the psychoanalytical framework of enjoyment and fantasy, I develop a perspective on how and why a certain understanding of the norm-critical subject emerges. The analysis makes visible how the practice of norm critique, while challenging hegemonic masculine norms such as emotional stoicism, reinforces neoliberal ideals of individualized self-emancipation and the quest for authenticity and wholeness, which risks de-politicizing the issue of climate change.
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- Sunnerfjell, Jon, 1986, et al.
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Governing the unemployable in the neurochemical age? The case of disability coding at the Public Employment Service
- 2018
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In: Subjectivity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1755-635X .- 1755-6341. ; 11:4, s. 303-321
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article considers the practice of disability detection and coding in the Swedish Public Employment Service (PES). By investigating and contrasting the governmental techniques for handling the category of ‘unemployable’ subjects on the one hand, and the self-understanding and ‘work on the self’ by the coded individuals on the other, it researches the role that the PES plays in the shaping of ‘disabled subjectivities’. Drawing on Dean’s analytical distinction, the analysis here contrasts two modes of subjectification: ‘governmental’ versus ‘ethical’ self-formation. By doing so, the article gives meaning to the fact that clients diagnosed with, or who aspire on receiving, neuropsychiatric diagnoses may sometimes refuse to view themselves as ‘disabled’. In such cases, a neuropsychiatric diagnosis may in fact constitute a platform for resisting governmentally encouraged subject-positions.
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