Technology as Symptom and Dream

Sheets‐Johnstone, Maxine

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“…In particular, I am interested in the kinds of subjectivities created by linear time, and also how conceptions of linear time correspond to lived realities. Romanyshyn (1989) describes how linear perspective initially developed as a technique in Renaissance art, and subsequently moved off the canvas to become a pervasive "habit of mind" for western-Enlightenment societies. The perspective, he argues, is tightly bound to the emergence of technological worlds and to sociotechno-imaginaries (Jasanoff and Kim, 2009).…”

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Imagining socioecological transformation: An analysis of the Welsh Government’s policy innovations and orientations to the future

Pigott

2018

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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This article explores how the Welsh Government's recent policy innovations in climate change and environmental sustainability can be read in terms of their imaginative capacity for transformation. The Welsh Government is one of only a few governments in the world to have a legal duty to sustainable development, which includes the pioneering Well-being of Future Generations Act (2015). The legislation has received international attention and praise from the United Nations but, as yet, the Welsh Government's imaginaries of socioecological transformation have received little scrutiny regarding the kinds of ideas about the future and possibilities for change they set in motion. The article considers imaginaries as providing the very grounds of possibility for transformation, being comprised of stories and narratives about what kinds of futures are possible and desirable, intermingled with emotional-affective "atmospheres" that can promote or hinder people's engagement with environmental issues. The article focuses on three aspects of the Welsh Government's imaginaries related to socioecological transformation, namely; resilience and anticipatory discourse, linear time, and "conspiracies of optimism". A number of tensions are drawn out that highlight how the Welsh Government's seemingly progressive rhetoric risks being undermined by the conceptions of time and change it employs. Thus, the article contributes to wider critical analyses of how new politics and modes of governance of and for the (proposed) Anthropocene are taking shape.

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Imagining socioecological transformation: An analysis of the Welsh Government’s policy innovations and orientations to the future

Pigott

2018

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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“…enment, suggests that people invoke socially constructed dichotomies as a means by which to order their experiences and understand their world (Derrida, 1982;Romanyshyn, 1989). This ideological tradition of dualism has been said to underpin contemporary social discourses that construct the self as comprising two disparate parts: (a) the mind or soul and (b) the body.…”

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Critical Reflections on the Body and Related Sociocultural Discourses at the Midlife Transition: An Interpretive Study of Women's Experiences

Ogle

Damhorst

2005

J Adult Dev

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The present study explored how European American women in midlife transition think about their changing bodies and related sociocultural discourses. The work was informed by theory that illuminates a process in which middle-aged individuals critically evaluate the meaning structures used to make sense of the world and self and transform these schemes for personal relevance. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 women transitioning into their middle-aged years. Data were analyzed using constant comparison processes. Analyses revealed two major ideological adjustments in participants' thinking, including (a) the shift from an emphasis upon external to internal aspects of the self and (b) the questioning of dominant social discourses about the female body. Although these ideological shifts seemingly contributed to participants' acceptance of their bodies at midlife, participants also expressed ambivalence about their appearances and related social discourses.

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“…249). This insight is echoed in Romanyshyn's (1989) brilliant interpretation of modern humankind as Homo astronauticus seeking to escape death by simultaneously escaping earth by penetrating into space and vacating the corpse-like body of modern science through technology.…”

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“…God has been removed to a distant past in which "distance" pervades the world. "Truth" is that which is held at a distance-the "objective" view, which Romanyshyn (1989) traces back to the emergence of linear perspective in painting as early as 1435 with Leon Battista Alberti (p. 35). The shift in worldview from pre-modern to modern, for van den Berg, is a shift in spatiality toward an increased distance.…”

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Schreber's Soul-Voluptuousness: Mysticism, Madness and the Feminine in Schreber's Memoirs

Robbins

2000

J Phenomenol Psychol

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alternative interpretation of the case is oVered from an existential-phenomenological perspective which aims both to expand upon and transform Freud's study without negating its value. Freud draws on the mythologies of the sun to argue for his hypothesis that the "father-complex" lies behind Schreber's God. By following some of the many other mythological themes in Schreber's memoirs, Freud's interpretation is opened to a larger, socially and historically situated context. An examination of cross-cultural and historical studies of mystical experience shows how Schreber's psychosis is simultaneously a form of madness and spiritual breakthrough. Schreber's is viewed as a narcissistic experience of the infant-child in which the imaginal has been exiled from rational, modern adulthood and is inaccessible to Cartesian language. Instead of recognizing the soul-full world of "miracles," Schreber envisions the absorption of the entire world into himself and he thus becomes an in ated caricature of the "heroic ego" at its extreme.In 1911, Freud published a case study based on Dr. Schreber's (1903) Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. This case study provides the investigator with the unique opportunity to reexamine Freud's interpretation through a return to the original data of Schreber's text. The Schreber case study is the only case by Freud in which we have access to the exact same source of data he used to reach his conclusions. In telling Schreber's story, I present Freud's interpretation of Schreber, as well as his motives for interpreting the memoirs, in order to show both the insights and limitations of his theory of paranoia. In turn, I oVer an alternative interpretation of Schreber from an existential-phenomenological perspective which aims both to expand upon and transform Freud's theory and interpretation without negating its value.

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Technology as Symptom and Dream

Cited by 36 publications

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Imagining socioecological transformation: An analysis of the Welsh Government’s policy innovations and orientations to the future

Imagining socioecological transformation: An analysis of the Welsh Government’s policy innovations and orientations to the future

Critical Reflections on the Body and Related Sociocultural Discourses at the Midlife Transition: An Interpretive Study of Women's Experiences

Schreber's Soul-Voluptuousness: Mysticism, Madness and the Feminine in Schreber's Memoirs

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