Naslov
No retreat: embodied subject and incessant trade

Autori
Bagarić, Petar

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
SIEF2015 12th Congress: Zagreb, Croatia. 21-25 June 2015

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 21.06.2015. - 25.06.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Embodiment; Utopia; Postmodernity; Subject

Sažetak
Utopia is usually perceived as a transcendental category different from reality (cf. Mannheim 1978) which serves as a model for a social change. As such, utopia is deeply affected by the crisis of transcendence in postmodernity. Unlike the Cartesian ego, which maintained firm boundaries between himself and the world and searched for a contact with it through neutral abstract categories, the embodied subject of postmodernity needs to achieve that contact immediately, through his body, affects and sensations. In such a context, in which things do not exist if they can't be felt, utopia has to be achieved as a specific constellation of affects and sensations - as a certain bodily state. Hyperaesthesia, explicated as the sensual logic of the late capitalism by david Howes 2005, is a means for achieving a specific utopian project. Namely, the project of free market, characterized as utopian by Karl Polany (1999), requires a subject without strict boundaries in order to secure constant and immediate flow of stimuli and goods. The hyperaesthetic state ensures dissolution of bodily coherence and release of perceptual possibilities (Livingston 1998) which allow for an undisturbed exchange of messages, sensations and affects. The embodied subject, therefore, is not faced with utopia as a regulative idea, but is, instead of that, directly immersed in a specific utopian state.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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