Between ontology and representation

Cockayne, Daniel; Ruez, Derek; Secor, Anna

doi:10.1177/0309132516650028

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“…The simultaneity of these building-machines, and the relations between them, are not easy to delineate. It helps to recognize the multiplicities 59 within these overlapping and sometimes conflicting processes of de/reterritorialization.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ruin(s) of Chiloé?: An ethnography of buildings de/reterritorializing

Miller

2021

cultural geographies

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Studying buildings can be a rich entry point into emerging cultural geographies. The archipelago of Chiloé in southern Chile is experiencing rapid change since the country’s extreme turn toward neoliberal governance in the 1970s. Once a rural, communal, and sea-faring region, it has been transformed by industrial aquaculture in recent decades which has driven a new urban landscapes and consumer-oriented lifestyles. This paper offers findings from an ethnographic study of changing consumption geographies, from iconic tourist sites linked to the region’s rich heritage geographies, to the new corporate retailers and shopping malls. Specifically, the new shopping mall clashes with the heritage and tourist landscape of colonial era churches and other unique heritage architectures that have captured the attention of tourists and investors. We glimpse a dynamic architectural geography in flux, as an array of buildings pulls the population in multiple directions at once, making it an ideal case study of the competing forces of what Deleuze and Guattari called de- and re-territorialization, an appropriate analytic for understanding the powerful forces of commodification.

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The ruin(s) of Chiloé?: An ethnography of buildings de/reterritorializing

Miller

2021

cultural geographies

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“…Do they have patterns, and can they be recalibrated or rearranged by political movements? Is it possible ‘to question how relations are formed and then endure despite conditions of continual change’ (Martin and Secor, 2014: 431)?…”

Section: Infrastructures Of Affectmentioning

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What is ‘affective infrastructure’?

Bosworth

2022

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Recent work in analyses of infrastructure and affect theory has mobilized a concept of ‘affective infrastructure’ in two related but somewhat different ways. On the one hand, some scholars use the concept to draw our attention to the emotions produced by concrete infrastructure systems. On the other hand, scholars have sought to locate how affect might condition forms of political organization. The concept risks analytic confusion: is ‘infrastructure’ metaphor, analogy, or material-technical system? Is the concept historically, spatially, or empirically situated, or does it have potential generic parameters as well? This article seeks to reconstruct two ‘sides’ of affective infrastructure while drawing out its significance for infrastructural politics. Doing so also involves understanding the problem space from which it emerged: affective geographies and 20th century Marxism. This article's process of reading results in a cluster of attendant concepts that give ‘affective infrastructure’ further specificity: mediation, endurance, determination, technical alienation, temporalities of repair, and political organization. The article's wager is that the concept gains analytic utility when it is used to clarify the ratio between historically situated technical alienation as a power relation of enduring colonial capitalism and the project of organizing anti-colonial social relations that might work to transform the capitalist mode of production.

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“…Differences in absence, plurality and excess subjugate productive and affirmative differences to the requirements of measured resemblance to, and degrees of deviance from a Western ideal. In contrast, difference-in-itself rearticulates difference as multiplicities that cannot be grouped or organized in relation to universals (Cockayne et al (2017). Following Deleuze, if we recognise life as a multiplicity of micro-differences that cannot be subordinated to identity, then we can start tracing connections and ‘connected histories’ that are not premised upon comparisons to universal narratives and reduced to binary modes of thinking.…”

Section: De-scaling Differencementioning

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“…However, tracing connections and paying attention to difference-in-itself should not be considered as simply de-emphasizing representation and the power it exerts in structuring experience and understanding. Rather, while holding in mind the power effects of difference, the aim is to consider ‘an account of representation as a particular ‘image of thought’ while maintaining that there may be other worlds available and possible, that difference need not always be tied to representation’ (Cockayne et al, 2017: 593). Such recognition opens up possibilities for different knowledges and the ‘thinkability’ of their being counted as knowledge (Madhok, 2020).…”

Section: De-scaling Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

The scalar politics of difference: Researching consumption and marketing outside the west

Sandıkçı

2022

Marketing Theory

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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge hierarchies and sociospatial ordering of the world and, in doing so, to problematize the ways we study and understand consumption and marketing outside the West. By sociospatial ordering of the world, I refer to scalar divisions that organize and mobilize hierarchical perceptions of the world. Adopting a view of scale as a way of knowing and apprehending the world, I trace the origins, uses and effects of three scales – Third World, non-Western and emerging markets – that organize and inform research about marketing and consumption outside the West. Each of these scales indicates an imagined distance from an assumed central point and mobilizes visions that order and organize not only places, but knowledge produced in and about these places. I show that these scalar configurations are neither neutral nor transparent designations, but politically charged, sociospatial constructions that privilege certain representations, meanings and identifications over others. In the process, they shape knowledge production, permitting particular forms of difference – absence, plurality and excess – to take shape, circulate and gain legitimacy. I conclude by discussing the possibility of a notion of difference that does not rest on a negative comparison between two entities but is generative, affirmative and non-hierarchical.

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Between ontology and representation

Cited by 28 publications

References 97 publications

The ruin(s) of Chiloé?: An ethnography of buildings de/reterritorializing

The ruin(s) of Chiloé?: An ethnography of buildings de/reterritorializing

What is ‘affective infrastructure’?

The scalar politics of difference: Researching consumption and marketing outside the west

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