What is Leisure Without Becoming? Assemblages of Active and Reactive Leisure

Stalker, Glenn J.

doi:10.1080/01490400.2019.1627961

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“…These ideas about cyber blame as self-steering, multi-focal, and capable of simultaneous, even co-dependent, attributions of right and wrong that come from a large, long time, and diverse body of works on cybernetics like (Jackson and Sambo 2020 ; Melo 2020 ; Wallis 2020 ; Wallis 2014 ; Guy 2018 ; Mavrofides et al 2011 ; Hanson 1995 ) and the groundbreaking work of Maruyana ( 1963 ), Bateson ( 1980 ) and Watzlawick et al ( 1967 ). It also harmonizes with revisions of mechanistic or binary views (Reiter 2020 ; Knio 2018 ; Hanson 2014 , 1995 ; Khoury 2013 ; Foley 2003 ; Egler 1970 ; Maruyana 1963 ) and arguments for more ecological, fuzzy, or leaky categories (Stalker 2019 ; Hinterleitner and Sager 2017 ; McDaniel 2003 ). These works got me thinking about how to portray the fluidity and self-steering patterns of events that emerge in laying blame.…”

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Cyber blame and social theory

Hanson

2021

SN Soc Sci

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Cybernetic causality reveals social processes of blaming. It allows for fluid multidirectional causal webs. Looking at blame through a cybernetic lens reveals social construction processes of creation, modification, exacerbation, dissipation, and elimination. Sometimes all at the same time. Performances of blaming can attribute praise or condemnation both simultaneously and sequentially. Blaming is enacted in multiple forms including being a conduit, reducing uncertainty, separation from self, a desire for efficacy, or a search for esteem. Mapping out fluid complexity in blaming might encourage using cybernetic causality to understand more aspects of social experience.

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Cyber blame and social theory

Hanson

2021

SN Soc Sci

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“…Importantly, the process of becoming is never complete, but rather “a continual process of disentangling” from dominant ways of knowing, doing, and being (Markula, 2019a, p. 177). Put differently, becoming is a “creative path taken by desire, a deterritorialization, an encounter with difference, and playful experimentation that plugs into assemblage with immanent intensities” (Stalker, 2019, p. 362).…”

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“…Bringing together Deleuze's theory of assemblage and ideas around becoming and bodies, Stalker (2019) theorizes “active leisure” as the (re)assembling of bodies, a “change of relations to others and/or material objects that is generative of new ways of life” (p. 348). Active leisure is reconceptualized from time spent not-working to leisure as becoming.…”

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“…According to Stalker (2019), becoming takes place “through lines of flight , or deterritorializations, by which multiplicities change character as their dimensions increase or decrease as a result of connections to other multiplicities” (p. 352). Broadly, the process of deterritorialization is the “connecting of the assemblage to other assemblages or other abstract systems of thought” (Markula, 2006a, p. 37), with the potential of such connections to extend “the capacities of a body” (Stalker, 2019, p. 348). Such deterritorializations can lead to different and unknown ways of being, knowing, and becoming, offering new lines of flight.…”

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Women's Physical Activity as Becoming: Lines of Flight from the Fitness Assemblage

Thorpe,

Brice,

O’Leary

et al. 2023

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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Building upon and extending a growing strand of research engaging feminist new materialisms to understand women's moving bodies as more-than-human phenomena, this paper considers the pandemic as an event that initiated new expressions and contents for the fitness assemblage. Engaging a feminist reading of Deleuze and Guattari's writings on becoming, we examine women's physical activity practices during the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing upon object interviews with 38 women living in Aotearoa New Zealand, we ask: How do women's pandemic relations with spaces (home, neighborhood), others (family, pets) and matter (objects of fitness) prompt new ways of knowing their own moving bodies and the importance of physical activity in their lives? Through our affective, material, and embodied analysis, we explain how the pandemic event surfaced new lines of flight away from the dominant gendered fitness assemblage. Women's affective relations and movement encounters prompted the emergence of new forms of bodily autonomy and fitness for pleasure and connection, offering glimpses of alternative ways of knowing, feeling, and sensing physical activity as becoming.

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“…For instance, Pavlidis and Fullagar (2014) explored the sport of roller derby as a site of cultural transformation and the ways in which roller derby extends feminine subjectivities through the mobilization of painful affects. This also includes a focus on the capacity of alternative lifestyle sports to reconfigure our understanding of the natural environment and the boundaries between mind and body, nature and culture, and human and non-human bodies (Atkinson 2010;Rossiter 2007;Stalker 2019). For instance, Stalker's Deleuzian theorisation of 'active ' and 'reactive' leisure (2019: 351) focused on the 'relations and processes which contribute to leisure without becoming' and reciprocally on 'the encounters with others and the material world which innovate active leisure'.…”

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‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom

Avner¹,

Boocock²,

Hall³

et al. 2021

Somatechnics

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In this article we examine women-specific adventure sport skills training courses in the UK utilising a feminist new materialist approach. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's (1987) concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘lines of territorialisation’, and ‘lines of flight’, we apply a new lens to ask: what type(s) of material-discursive assemblages are produced through human and non-human, discursive, and non-discursive intra-actions on women-specific adventure sport skills courses? To what extent do these courses enable participants to engage with an alternative praxis and ethics and to think, feel, practice, and become otherwise? Our Deleuzian reading showed that the affective capacity of these courses is currently limited by dominant understandings of these courses as bridges to the real outdoors and as primarily designed for women who lack the confidence to participate in mixed-gender environments. However, these courses also enabled productive lines of flight and alternative understandings and practices related to the self, the body, others, material objects, learning, movement, and physical activity to emerge. These were both characterised and supported by less instrumental and hierarchical flows of relations and an openness to not knowing.

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What is Leisure Without Becoming? Assemblages of Active and Reactive Leisure

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

Cyber blame and social theory

Cyber blame and social theory

Women's Physical Activity as Becoming: Lines of Flight from the Fitness Assemblage

‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom

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