Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought

Grosz, Elizabeth

doi:10.1353/sym.2005.0074

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“…I will propose the concept of affirmative old age as an alternative conceptualisation of ageing and later life; this concept was originally developed in my empirical work on ageing masculinity and sexuality, mentioned above, in dialogue with feminist theorising on embodiment, sexual difference and sexuality as proposed by Elisabeth Grosz (1994aGrosz ( , 1994bGrosz ( , 1999 and Rosi Braidotti (1994. While neither of these theorists specifically deals with ageing and the ageing body, I have found their work useful in thinking about ageing embodiment, something I will expand on in the article.…”

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Affirmative old age - the ageing body and feminist theories on difference

Sandberg

2013

Int J Ageing Later Life

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Discourses on old age and ageing are framed in narrow and binary ways, either as a decline narrative or through discourses of positive and successful ageing. The decline narrative, on the one hand, is highly centred on the decline of the ageing body as frail, leaky and unbounded, and on how old age is characterised by non-productivity, increasing passivity and dependency. Discourses on successful ageing, on the other hand, rely heavily on neo-liberal imperatives of activity, autonomy and responsibility. In successful ageing, the specificities of ageing bodies are largely overlooked while the capacity of the old person to retain a youthful body, for example, with the aid of sexuopharmaceuticals, is celebrated. This article argues for the need of a theorising of old age that goes beyond the binaries of decline and success. Drawing on the work of feminist corpomaterialists Rosi Braidotti and Elisabeth Grosz, the article proposes affirmative old age as an alternative conceptualisation of old age.

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Affirmative old age - the ageing body and feminist theories on difference

Sandberg

2013

Int J Ageing Later Life

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“…Whilst the engagement of the world to which he refers is welcome, the rejection of space within our living creates questions of the human and space. Moreover, as Grosz interprets, people do not live in cities, but in networks of contacts, sites, memories and doings of lively interaction (Grosz 1999). The poetic philosopher Bachelard's attention focused on the gentle intensities of small spaces; cupboards, huts, nests, corners (Bachelard 1994).…”

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bricolage, poetics, spacing

Crouch¹

2017

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Contemporary concern for bricolage both transcends and supersedes de Certeau's important intervention that resituated the term as actions undertaken in everyday life. In particular, he engaged the notion of bricolage in ways that presented tactics, evasions, resistances, ruses and even tricks in his consideration of everyday life as practiced. Whilst these considerations may be read, as indeed he asserted, as 'making do', there are further possibilities of this term. For example, bricolage may be considered to 'occur'. In this we may take the anthropologist Hallam and Ingold's grasp of creativity as something in our bodily and mental response to situations, calm, anxious and otherwise; responding to the detail of a situation, a required or desired action.

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“…Indeed, Grosz writes about a common and widespread anxiety in the face of an indeterminate and unpredictable future, and a desire for the old to contain the new in a state of 'predictable transformation, transformation which follows a predesignated path, innovation within legitimised parameters, that is, controlled and regulated progress' [15]. Weiser's motto of 'you let what you build change you, and you move on' may present a progressive albeit carefully controlled transformation, but it leaves too much at stake in the more distant future.…”

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“…Weiser's motto of 'you let what you build change you, and you move on' may present a progressive albeit carefully controlled transformation, but it leaves too much at stake in the more distant future. As Grosz writes, unpredictable movement and transformation may involve mutation and metamorphoses 'with implications or consequences which cannot be known in advance' [15], or in other words, it might mean changes beyond the control of the author and inventor.…”

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Figuring ubicomp (out)

Kerasidou

2017

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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This paper explores ubicomp as a configuration that comprises three key figures: ubiquitous computing as a name and a term, Mark Weiser who came to be identified as the father of ubiquitous computing, and finally the temporalities folded within ubicomp's 'vision'; all three figures tightly interwoven under the phrase, Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing. By unpacking each figure and exposing the processes that hold ubicomp together, this paper makes visible the frictions and contradictions that ubicomp folds within it, while, at the same time, it attends to the practices that help the whole configuration to circulate, become dominant and productive. The aim is to destabilise and denaturalise the reductive dominance of ubicomp's origin story and attend, instead, to its multiple and messy nature and (hi)stories in order to open up the ways that it can be reconfigured differently.

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Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought

Cited by 67 publications

References 11 publications

Affirmative old age - the ageing body and feminist theories on difference

Affirmative old age - the ageing body and feminist theories on difference

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