Toews Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media

Higher Diversities
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-27868-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toews, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Prologue: Power Void

Introduction: That’s "Life"

PART I: Conflations of Social Life and Political Life in the Digital Era

1. Deleuze: Societies of Control and the Ordering Effects of ‘Modulation’

2. Andrejevic: Infoglut and Immersion Culture

3. Latour: Science, The Representation of Diversity, and the ‘Parliament of Things’

PART II: Strategies of Critique of Conflationism

4. The Causal-Action Bias of Traditional Social Science

5. The Problem of Modernist Ontologies of Activity

6. Higher Diversities: Tarde’s Critique of Emergent Relations

PART III: The Consequences of Higher Diversities for Contemporary Social and Political Life

7. Simultaneity: The Impositions of Experience

8. Political Life in the Era of Social Life

Epilogue: Complexions of the Generalized Public

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Toews received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. An award-winning teacher and major grant recipient from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) in the area of Sociology, he has been a faculty member in several universities and has published articles in such journals as Theory, Culture and Society, and the European Journal of Social Theory.