Search Results for methodological individualism

... of the market and schematically reconstructs Hayek’s line of argumentation from his economic paradigm backward to his theory of cognition. Eventually, in Hayek’s interpretation, connectionism provides a relativist cognitive paradigm that justifies the “methodological individualism” of neoliberalism. 22...

... comes at the end of something, after all.” Indeed, ADHD is late capitalism’s “exterminating angel.” Quite simply: “You can’t long ferociously for unattainable consumer goods forever.” 16 [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2023 methodological individualism...

... Pound to restore the true progressive political potential of Pound’s poetry. Using a largely Freudian methodology, Duncan finds in “kitsch” Pound a vector that opposes his authoritarian fascism. The essay then examines how Poundian poetics operates in Duncan’s poetry written in opposition to the Vietnam...

... methodological individualism, while sociologists of actor network theory (Callon and Latour) jettisoned the belief in a pre- existing social reality that constrains the behavior of individuals, and reintroduced the role of nonhumans in the social fabric.20 Our humanity does not derive from our sociality...

...Brett Zehner Abstract This methodologically important essay aims to trace a genealogical account of Herbert Simon’s media philosophy and to contest the histories of artificial intelligence that overlook the organizational capacities of computational models. As Simon’s work demonstrates, humans...

... one’s actor- network, with almost organismic precocity, “spreads out into space” so as to both naturalize and obliterate the singularity of the individual. What this review calls Mialet’s “metaphysics of subjectivity” is not the same as Heidegger’s eponymous construction— which, as Derrida...

... plucking the methodological kernel, while discarding the husk. According to DeNora, Adorno made two great contributions to music sociology. First, Adorno articulated not only how social practices shape music, but how musical procedures (the specific ways in which...

... and elucidate Hegel’s text). Pahl’s particular methodological innovation lies in an acute attunement to the dis- tinctions and interconnections between different levels that exist in the Phenomenology: “the syncopating measures of poetic rhythm, the virtual present of theatrical...

... supplements existing immune theory with their own emergent and embodied theory, they develop an autoimmune methodology based on their experience of living with an autoimmune disease. Part personal narrative, part speculative autoimmune theory, the article ultimately calls for a practice of self-care aimed...

... constructed experience” where it is relevant, but it also encourages a skeptical view of empiricism, the methodology that assumes there is something pure and foundational called individual experience on which knowledge of the external world (“reality”) is based. In previous centuries “experience” was taken...

..., Lowe fashions a shared space for both without fore- closing the incommensurabilities between them. In both content and methodology, The Intimacies of Four Continents therefore coheres the myriad modes of analysis prompted by past and present intima- cies between seemingly...

.... But alongside these openings there appears also to be a more deliberate targeting of individuals who represent the most rad- ical parameters of Palestinian solidarity. Increasingly, our students are the ones most at risk and yet most willing to risk—a shameful indict- ment of the privileges of the upper...

... and systematically as Spinoza. Indeed, even more than for Hobbes, for Spinoza the ability of the human mind to create images is an anthropological given and an irreducible di- mension of all human actions and interactions. But even for those more interested in pursuing theoretical and methodological...

... in On the Origin of Species (1859). In addition to misgivings about effi cient causalities and mechan- ical reductionism, Haeckel and Bergson also shared suspicions about purely intellectual methodologies, particularly when it came to treating life’s teeming temporality. They developed...

... as primarily a vehicle for articulating one’s desires and individuality. While her critique of Western theories of desire and the body are compelling, they would be served by further critical examination of the “productive body” as a category, a topic addressed frequently in the works of disability theorists...

... Derrida, Of Grammatology Stefania Pandolfo’s exciting and deeply profound ethnography, Knot of the Soul , offers the most extensive analytic framework to consider madness in a Muslim-majority context (in this case, contemporary Morocco) and to address broader methodological questions concerning...

... created or demonstrated concepts. I followed these people as the narrative device into the territories that I wanted to investigate. So methodologically the book had two engines— an architectur- al approach, and a critical- biographical one, concerned with the practitioners of the calculative...

... in a methodology that refrains from— or turns away from— legitimating divergent perceptions; rather, it attempts the much more diffi cult task of recognizing these divergences without making them signify toward or within an on- tology from which they seek refuge. However, calling the methodology of Terada...

..., thereof one must be silent?” 10 In other words, is Wittgenstein’s sense of the ordinary more quiescent, in contrast with Spillers’s transformative vision? While there is a growing body of scholarship that applies Wittgenstein’s methodologies for feminist purposes, comparing Spillers’s return...

...Thomas Sutherland Abstract Although it is sometimes construed as a mere negation of philosophical discourse, François Laruelle maintains that there is a positive side to his project of “nonphilosophy.” Often this takes the form of a defense of the “ordinary man,” a faceless individual, without...