Kissmann / Loon Discussing New Materialism

Methodological Implications for the Study of Materialities
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-658-22300-7
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in Social Theory. Are the ideas of a 'material turn', as the theory is formulated and in its assumptions, foreshadowed by the classical philosophies of Spinoza and Tarde? Do these new approaches bring substantially new perspectives to Social Theory? A further goal of these essays is to formulate the methodological and methodical consequences for its empirical implementation. What conditions must an ethnography of things fulfill if it is to be sufficient? Which participant objects and bodies do the approaches of the various social theories and methodologies include or exclude?

Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann is Professor of Sociological Methodology of Qualitative Reconstructive Research at the University of Kassel.Joost van Loon is Professor of General Sociology and Sociological Theory at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kissmann, Ulrike Tikvah

Loon, Joost van

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;About the Contributors;7
3;Part I Introduction;11
4;New Materialism and Its Methodological Consequences: An Introduction;12
4.1;References;27
5;Part II Postphenomenology and Actor-Network-Theory;28
6;What Makes Sensation of a Sentient Thing Possible: The Concept of Time in the Work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty;29
6.1;1Introduction;29
6.2;2The Concept of Linear Time in Merleau-Ponty’s Early Work;30
6.3;3The Re-Conceptualization of Time in Merleau-Ponty’s Late Work;34
6.3.1;3.1Chiasmic Structure of Time;34
6.3.2;3.2Immemorial “écart” of the Flesh;35
6.4;4Agency from the Perspective of Ontology of the Invisible;37
6.5;5The Case for Video Hermeneutics;39
6.6;6Conclusion;42
6.7;References;43
7;Historical Materialism and Actor-Network-Theory;46
7.1;1Introduction;46
7.2;2Historical Materialism;48
7.3;3Actor-Network-Theory (ANT);54
7.4;4Differences that Matter: Thinking Historical Materialism and ANT Together;60
7.5;5Synergy: Signing a Contract as a Practice of Mediation;64
7.6;6Methodological Consequences;67
7.7;References;70
8;Part III Cyborg and Agential Realism;73
9;The Cyborg, Its Friends and Feminist Theories of Materiality;74
9.1;1Reading Cyborg Nature and Materialities;74
9.2;2In Love and War – Material-Semiotic Conversations;76
9.3;3Reproduction, Sex/Gender and Biological Determinism;77
9.4;4EDP, Technofeminism and Cyborg Conversations;80
9.5;5Feminism, Niels Bohr and Agential Realism;81
9.6;6Process Ontology and Methodological Sensitivity – Having an Ear for the Phenomenon;85
9.7;7Revival of the Cyborg-Materiality and New Conversations;87
9.8;References;89
10;“Cutting Together/Apart” – Impulses from Karen Barad’s Feminist Materialism for a Relational Sociology;92
10.1;1Introduction;92
10.2;2Resonances of an Agential Realism: Practice, Relationality and In/Determinacy;94
10.2.1;2.1Agential Cuts, Praxeological Realization and Post-Humanistic Responsibility;95
10.2.2;2.2Decentering: Practice as Intra-Action and the Ongoing Redefinition of the “Social”;97
10.2.3;2.3In/Determinacy: Spacetimemattering and Cutting Together/Apart;98
10.3;3Ethico-onto-Epistemo-Logy: The Ethical Dimension of Precariousness and Post-Humanist Queer Performativity;100
10.3.1;3.1Sociological Problematization: In/Determinacy and Precarization;100
10.3.2;3.2The Ethical Dimension of Precarity;101
10.3.3;3.3Infrastructure or Differential Becoming of the World: Performative Practices;104
10.4;4Cutting Together/Apart – Impulses for an Agential-Realistic Methodology;108
10.5;References;110
11;Part IV Praxeology and Communicative Constructivism;112
12;Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Social Interaction: A Multimodal and Multisensorial Approach to Tasting;113
12.1;1Introduction;113
12.1.1;1.1A Material and Embodied Turn;113
12.1.2;1.2A Praxeological Multimodal Approach to Social Interaction;114
12.1.3;1.3From Multimodality to Multisensoriality;116
12.2;2Sounds and Cries: Forms of Immediate Sensorial Access in Tasting;118
12.3;3Using Artifacts to Support Sensing and Naming;122
12.4;4Navigating Between Sensory Bodies, Sensed Objects, and Tools;129
12.5;5Conclusion;134
12.6;6Conventions;135
12.7;References;136
13;Materiality, Meaning, Social Practices: Remarks on New Materialism;139
13.1;1Introduction;139
13.2;2Matter as Eventful Potentiality;140
13.3;3The Analysis of Sociomateriality and the Turn to Ontology;142
13.3.1;3.1ANT: Symmetry Postulate and Actant Thesis;143
13.3.2;3.2Intra-Action and Non-Intentional Vitality;145
13.4;4“Matter” as Participant in Social Processes and Practices;146
13.4.1;4.1Affordances;146
13.4.2;4.2Materiality as Part of Public and Meaningful Ongoing Accomplishments;147
13.4.3;4.3Formulations as Member’s Methods of Rule-Following;149
13.5;5Conclusion: Methodological Principle of Symmetry and Ontological Reasoning;151
13.6;References;152
14;New Materialism? A View from Sociology of Knowledge;154
14.1;1Introduction;154
14.2;2Is There Something Wrong with New Materialisms?;155
14.3;3Interpretation as Entanglement and Interrelation;160
14.4;4Beyond New Materialism? Materiality in Sociology of Knowledge Based Discourse Research;168
14.5;References;170
15;Part V Algorithmic Culture and Doing Science;173
16;From Hardware to Software to Runtime: The Politics of (at Least) Three Digital Materialities;174
16.1;1Material Turns and the Test Case of Digital Transformations;174
16.2;2Three (Re-) Discoveries of the Materiality of Digital Transformations;177
16.3;3Empirical Incisions Through the Materialities of the Digital;180
16.4;4Materialisms, Ontologies, and Modes of Existence;182
16.5;5Politics of the Materialization of the Digital;186
16.6;References;188
17;Of Rabbits and Men, or: How to Study Innovation in Nanomedicine;191
17.1;1Introduction;191
17.2;2The Animal Testing Procedure;193
17.3;3The Human-Rabbit Relation;195
17.3.1;3.1Becoming a Laboratory Animal, Becoming an Experimenter;195
17.3.2;3.2Objectification – Subjectification;196
17.3.3;3.3Do Animals Act?;199
17.4;4Contingency and Openness in Experiments;201
17.5;5Nano-particles as Associations;205
17.6;6Conclusion: The Invention of Nano-sociality;207
17.7;References;208