[Humsamserien] seminariet 14 april

[Simon Haikola]

För de intresserade (av imaginary-begreppet, som diskuterades på seminariet idag):

Castoriadis   [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imaginary_(sociology)&action=edit&section=3>]

In 1975, Cornelius Castoriadis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Castoriadis> used the term in his book The Imaginary Institution of Society, maintaining that 'the imaginary of the society ... creates for each historical period its singular way of living, seeing and making its own existence'.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-3> For Castoriadis, 'the central imaginary significations of a society ... are the laces which tie a society together and the forms which define what, for a given society, is "real"'.[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-4>

In similar fashion, Habermas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habermas> wrote of 'the massive background of an intersubjectively shared lifeworld ... lifeworld contexts that provided the backing of a massive background consensus'.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-5>

Lacan   [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imaginary_(sociology)&action=edit&section=4>]

'The imaginary is presented by Lacan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan> as one of the three intersecting orders that structure all human existence, the others being the symbolic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Symbolic> and the real<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real>'.[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-6> Lacan was responding to ' L'Imaginaire, which was the title of the "phenomenological psychology of the imagination" published by Sartre<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sartre> in 1940, where it refers to the image as a form of consciousness'.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-7> Lacan also drew on the way 'Melanie Klein<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Klein> pushes back the limits within which we can see the subjective function of identification operate',[8]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-8> in her work on phantasy - something extended by her followers to the analysis of how 'we are all prone to be drawn into social phantasy systems...the experience of being in a particular set of human collectivities'.[9]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-9> 'While it is only in the early years of childhood that human beings live entirely in the Imaginary, it remains distinctly present throughout the life of the individual'.[10]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-10>

The imaginary as a Lacanian term refers to an illusion and fascination with an image of the body as coherent unity, deriving from the dual relationship between the ego and the specular or mirror image. This illusion of coherence, control and totality is by no means unnecessary or inconsequential (as something that is illusory). 'The term "imaginary" is obviously cognate with "fictive" but in its Lacanian sense it is not simply synonymous with fictional or unreal; on the contrary, imaginary identifications can have very real effects'.[11]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-11>

Taylor    [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imaginary_(sociology)&action=edit&section=5>]

Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher)> uses the concept of modern social imaginaries to explore the Western transition from the hierarchical norms of pre-modern social imaginaries to the egalitarian, horizontal, direct access social imaginary of modernity.[12]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-12> He sees the Renaissance ideal of civility and self-fashioning as a sort of halfway house[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-13> on the road to modernity and modern morality. The modern social imaginary he considers comprises a system of interlocking spheres, including reflexivity and the social contract,[14]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-14> public opinion and Habermas' public sphere, the political/market economy as an independent force, and the self-government of citizens within a society as a normative ideal.[15]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-15>

Taylor has acknowledged the influence of Benedict Anderson<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Anderson> in his formulation of the concept of the social imaginary.[16]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-16> Anderson treated the nation as 'an imagined political community...nation-ness, as well as nationalism, are cultural artifacts of a particular kind'.[17]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-17>

Haikola    [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imaginary_(sociology)&action=edit&section=5>]

Haikola, taking up Lacan, writes of the imaginary as being inextricably linked to a fundamental lack in the human existence. In contrast to Lacan, however, he goes on to define this lack as being specifically about the lack of sweet things to eat in conjunction with coffee (or tea), as he speaks - deliriously, ragingly - of the imaginary as the ’horrific place [...] one dwells mentally, unhappily, when the urge to savor a sweet snack, has not been appropriately satisfied.’ [18]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_(sociology)#cite_note-17> Thus, he concludes that some kind of savory snack must be brought to seminars, always, and even offers to be the one to bring them himself.


/Simon

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Skickat: den 14 april 2015 14:57
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Ämne: Re: [Humsamserien] seminariet 14 april

Hej,

Det var så kul idag att vi tar ett textseminarium även nästa vecka (21/4 13-15):

Demeritt D. Science studies, climate change and the prospects for constructivist critique. Econ Soc 2006,
35:453–479.

väl mött!
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Johan Hedrén
Associate Professor
Program director for The Environmental Science program
Tema Environmental Change
Department of thematic studies
Linköping University
Phone +46 13 28 25 09
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Från: Johan Hedrén
Skickat: den 9 april 2015 16:10
Till: humsamserien at lists.liu.se
Ämne: seminariet 14 april

Hej!

Vi har lite nya planer för seminariet i nästa vecka. Istället för det inplanerade seminariet med Eva Lövbrands artikel läser vi och diskuterar Yusoff & Gabrys "Climate Change and the Imagination" (2011) och med tanke på att många är stressade av att skriva ansökningar till Formas nöjer vi oss med 1 timme, dvs 13-14.

väl mött!

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Johan Hedrén
Associate Professor
Program director for The Environmental Science program
Tema Environmental Change
Department of thematic studies
Linköping University
Phone +46 13 28 25 09
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