Wittgenstein. Ordinary Language as Lifeform

Laugier, Sandra

doi:10.1515/9783110518283-012

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“…The ordinary emerges as a key dimension of carceral domesticity. However, as scholars of the ordinary are well aware, the uncanniness inhabits our relation to the ordinary (Cavell, 2006; Laugier, 2018). Carceral domesticity possesses a dual nature, being both accessible and intricate.…”

Section: Framing Carceral Domesticitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Carceral domesticity as containment of troubled families in Santiago, Chile

Aedo

2023

Environ Plan D

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This article deals with the ways in which populations in prison-neighbourhood circuits are policed, managed, and contained in Santiago, Chile. It draws attention to how the safeguarding of social order and security policy is intertwined with the reproduction of carceral domesticities among low-income households. Building on ethnographic research conducted in two stages between 2017 and 2022 with practitioners of crime prevention programmes and the ‘problem’ families targeted by such initiatives, the article addresses carceral domesticity as containment of troubled families. It shows how such containment involves a project of subjectivation centred on women to enforce a gendered family model by engaging state programmes, psychosocial manuals, and prevention practitioners. It focuses on security and enclosure mechanisms in domestic spaces at work through a grammar of care and prevention. By examining the pitfalls that carceral domesticity encounters in everyday domestic life, the article sheds light on the productivity of resistances to enable spaces of autonomy in times of economic crisis and social uprising in Chile.

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Section: Framing Carceral Domesticitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Carceral domesticity as containment of troubled families in Santiago, Chile

Aedo

2023

Environ Plan D

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“…[26]) and/or in a cultural or ethnological sense (cf. [27][28][29][30][31]) or as (roughly) synonymous with "patterns of life" (cf. [24,25]) 4 .…”

Section: Patterns Of Life and Conceptual Injusticesmentioning

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Facts, Concepts and Patterns of Life—Or How to Change Things with Words

Trächtler

2023

Philosophies

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In his last writings, Wittgenstein repeatedly addresses the question of how our concepts relate to general facts of nature or human nature and how they are embedded in our lives. In doing so, he uses the term “pattern of life”, characterizing the complicated relationship between concepts and our lives and how our concepts “are connected with what interests us, with what matters to us” (LWPP II, 46). But who is this “us”, and whose interests manifest in the concepts we use to designate patterns of life? What if certain concepts—or their absence—are exclusionary, discriminatory, or otherwise unjust to those who are not “us”? In this paper, I want to discuss Wittgenstein’s notion of “pattern of life” in its interweaving with facts, human life, and concepts, as well as its political implications. To this end, I will first outline the relationship between facts and concept formation as Wittgenstein drew it in his last writings. Based on this, I will argue that he uses the concept of pattern of life to capture the complicated relationship between concepts and human nature or “social facts”. Going beyond Wittgenstein and drawing on recent feminist epistemology, I will raise the question of the political implications of our patterns of life and concomitant social “conceptual injustices”. Finally, I will show how imagining facts otherwise and other conceptual worlds can help us to reveal the prejudices and injustices of our concepts and can lead to conceptual change and new patterns of life that may ultimately even change “things”, i.e., our thinking, judging and acting in the world.

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“…In the end-of-life experience contribution given by Schiavo [ 13 ], the outcome is seen as successful performance based on musical exercises and games, with the regulation of emotions, and therefore the language chosen by patients and caregivers can be verbal, prosodic, or based facial expressions, thus constructing the time close to death between the patient and caregiver together, sharing the same symbolic universe, its rules and its perlocutory implications [ 16 ].…”

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confidence: 99%