Politics and aesthetics

Chmielewski, Adam

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“…As a final shift, we may therefore choose to view the complex and composite nature of order as a standing invitation, one that invites us to disrupt established perceptions to the extent that we also risk viewing ourselves and the world in a different light. The possibilities are many, as Chmielewski ( 2020 ) reminds us, because ‘the need to discover, establish, impose, perfect and abolish order, never expires in man’. 109 Nevertheless, we must live with the fact that order is demanding to capture.…”

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“…This search is a function of whatever mind is, for our minds see, impose and accept order’. 11 , 12 This placement of order as a kind of a central hub for the human way of functioning and being is more recently confirmed by Chmielewski ( 2020 ), who in his discussion of the question of human nature he introduces the concept of homo ordinans – the ‘ordering-and-order-seeking being’. 13 Taken as a whole, order can thus be thought to represent something we are “created for”, search for, are incessantly drawn to, work hard to produce and hold up as a central value or quality in our lives.…”

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“… 38 Chmielewski ( 2020 ) accordingly argues that ‘Norms of the cognitive regime [intellectual and cognitive order] thus fulfil a disciplinary task; they allow certain ways of seeing or speaking, while prohibiting other ones.’ (p. 7). …”

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Possibilities and paradoxes in medicine: love of order, loveless order and the order of love

Eriksen

2022

Med Health Care and Philos

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We have a desire to discover and create order, and our constitution, including our rational faculties, indicates that we are predisposed for such productivity. This affinity for order and the establishment of order is fundamental to humans and naturally also leaves its mark on the medical discipline. When this profession is made subject to criticism, frequently in terms of well-used reproofs such as reductionism, reification and de-humanisation, this systematising productivity is invariably involved in some way or other. It is, however, problematic that we rarely delve deeper and ask what order means, or reflect on its underlying, omnipresent and self-evident role. In order to approach this challenge, we initially and briefly place order in a conceptual and historical context. In what follows, we examine order explicitly, i.e. made an object of study, by taking a closer look at extensive multidisciplinary efforts to uncover the secrets of all its facets. Here we also try to identify some systems of order in medical science, including methodological and procedural order, which are indispensable as well as a source of problems. In the sections that follow, order is not defined as an explicit object of study, but comes to light in some exploratory and philosophising projects based on physics, mathematics and phenomenology . Each of these lets order and that which is ordered emerge in ways that may also shed light on opportunities and paradoxes in the medical domain. Key themes here include the Gordian knot of psyche – soma, the order of disorder and the patient as Other.

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Possibilities and paradoxes in medicine: love of order, loveless order and the order of love

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2022

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“…The proliferation of interpassivity is due to the seemingly unstoppable sophistication of the division of labor, as well as the creation, professionalization, and specialization of services, which are, obviously, more readily available within urban forms of collective life than within rural ones. As a result, in the urban environment, individuals find themselves positively encouraged to delegate many duties, tasks, and chores which they would otherwise have to perform themselves, were it not for the easy availability of people ready to perform those activities on their behalf—at a price (Chmielewski 2020, 126-139). The contemporary city is first and foremost a supplier of such people.…”

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“…Thanks to order, our surroundings become regulated and comprehensible, thus predictable and safe. Man is homo ordinans , an ordering-and-order-seeking being (Chmielewski 2020, 3).…”

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Abstract Society in the Time of Plague

Chmielewski

2020

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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The global lockdown following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to generate all sorts of consequences: psychological, social, economic, and political. To hypothesize about what will emerge from the present situation is at this point both premature and impossible. The impossibility comes primarily from the gravity and vastness of this emergency and from the lack of intellectual resources to deal with the challenge. At the same time, however, the need to get a grasp of the condition in which we have found ourselves is both understandable and irresistible. One way of responding, at least partially, to the demand and its possible consequences may be to refer to the concept of abstract society, an idea formulated 75 years ago by the Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper.

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