{"title":"Contracts, Polyamory, and Late Liberalism: The Relational Production of Unrelationality","authors":"Julienne Obadia","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines norms of labor and individuation inaugurated by late liberal directives to optimize intimate life as a site of personal fulfilment. Analyzing ethnographic material on US polyamory, I identify \"the contract complex\"—a set of techniques for managing multiple relationships—as a person-making regime that enables dramatic intimate transformations while extending classical liberalism's hierarchical privileging of autonomy over dependence. Persisting gendered binaries structure this phenomenon, with the late liberal home masculinized as it is re-imagined from a natural site of nurture to one of choice, and the person feminized as a site of therapeutic self-nurture through self-discovery.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0026","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article examines norms of labor and individuation inaugurated by late liberal directives to optimize intimate life as a site of personal fulfilment. Analyzing ethnographic material on US polyamory, I identify "the contract complex"—a set of techniques for managing multiple relationships—as a person-making regime that enables dramatic intimate transformations while extending classical liberalism's hierarchical privileging of autonomy over dependence. Persisting gendered binaries structure this phenomenon, with the late liberal home masculinized as it is re-imagined from a natural site of nurture to one of choice, and the person feminized as a site of therapeutic self-nurture through self-discovery.
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The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.
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