Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231154229
A. Schoneboom, D. Mallo, A. Tardiveau
Using Gorz’s writing on cities and time as a starting point, this sensory ethnographic study uses pinhole photography to explore how time feels for ‘unemployed’ volunteers at a community garden in the north-east of England. It upholds that the garden’s ability to fill time meaningfully is grounded in the food-growing and composting cycle but is also anchored to the mature trees, structures and artworks – made, grown or maintained by the volunteers themselves, that persist in the space for many years. We argue that urban community gardens offer their denizens an ‘elongated present’ that is fulfilling to the individual while also sustaining community and nature. Emphasising the need for enduring, rather than temporary or pop-up, growing spaces in helping us transition to a sustainable, post-work society, the study thus adds temporal insight to existing scholarship on the importance of community gardens.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1468795X231153786
Diana Stypinska
It is often suggested that today we are living in the “end times.” Confronted by a perpetual incursion of major global crises, we increasingly find ourselves incapable of meaningfully relating to the present, let alone to the future. The forever deferred “end” throws the very idea of time out of joint. Unable to advance, our imagination retreats, with retrograde tendencies taking over both culture and politics. From incessant movie prequels and sequels, through the re-emergence of populist fascist politics, all the way to the return of Cold War rhetoric, we witness our reality becoming increasingly substituted by a string of peculiar rehashings and reunions. History, as we knew it, is no longer “made”; we strain to cling to the past, equating the future with dystopia. Crucially, this problematique of the fading of temporality is not new. In fact, it has got a history of its own. This paper explores our current (a)temporal whereabouts by reflecting upon them from the perspective of their historical trajectory. It does this by revisiting the work of André Gorz—a thinker whose contributions equip us with the insights needed to confront time out of joint effectively and embrace the idea of future. The article argues that the roots of today’s temporal malaise can be found in the process of “economicization,” which subordinated the notion of utopia to its principles, thereby nullifying it. Examining the effects of the unbridled reign of economic rationality over our imagination, it calls for a temporal intervention by means of ecological rationality.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1468795x211067453a
M. Weber
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Pub Date : 2023-01-21DOI: 10.1177/1468795x231151797
Irene Skovgaard-Smith, Alison Hirst
This article revisits Marcel Mauss’s theory of magic in the context of contemporary capitalism. Mauss saw magic as the art of transforming, socially accomplished via processes of differentiation that endow specialised agents, and their symbolic acts, with an ambiguous and unstable potentiality to do the extraordinary. Applying Mauss’s conception, we argue that significant figures of late capitalism, such as leaders, consultants and entrepreneurs, are set apart and socially constituted as magical agents with supernormal powers to solve unfathomable problems, ‘create value’ and make things happen. Based on collective beliefs and expectations, they are infused with a transformative social efficacy that further entrenches dominant neoliberal values and practices. The article contributes to highlighting the continued sociological relevance of Mauss’s theory of magic and his insistence on the importance of symbolic thought and action in the constitution of the social.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221145833
N. Harris, Javier García, Lucy H. Ford
We argue that Gorz’s work offers a nuanced engagement with alienation that is instructive for contemporary social theory. In keeping with Gorz’s broader politics, we contend that the utility of his framing of alienation derives from his insistence that progressive critique must challenge the ideal of productivism. We start the paper by presenting a sympathetic reconstruction of Gorz’s understanding of alienation. Next, we explicitly detail the strengths his approach carries for furthering sociological research today. We then reinforce this point by arguing that Gorz’s work offers particularly valuable theoretical resources for contemporary Frankfurt School Critical Theory, in which the study of alienation has been somehow hampered by the ascent of ‘recognition theory’. While not sharing all the methodological commitments of first-generation Critical Theorists, Gorz was well versed in Frankfurt School scholarship and is therefore an apposite interlocutor to engage ‘third-generation’ Critical Theory. Gorz’s insights are thus shown to be important for furthering contemporary social theory, and in particular, for helping to combat the unsustainable productivism of neoliberal capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221144725
C. el-Ojeili
Born in Ireland in 1947, contributing to Marxian debates on state theory from the 1970s, and part of the open Marxist current of the 1990s, John Holloway has been based in Mexico since the early 1990s and is currently teaching at the Autonomous University of Puebla. Profoundly influenced by the Zapatistas, Holloway’s (2002) Change the World Without Taking Power was, along with Hardt and Negri’s (2000) Empire, one of the major theoretical expressions of the alternative globalization movement – both works deeply informed by Italian autonomism. In Hope in Hopeless Times, the final book in his trilogy, Holloway ably summarizes Change the World and its follow-up, Crack Capitalism (Holloway, 2010):
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221142464
W. Outhwaite
Journals often ask whether a submission would fit better in another journal. Tom Kemple’s splendid book fits squarely into the frame of this one. It consists of a close reading of Capital as inter alia an aesthetic whole, focused in particular on Marx’s constant quotation of Goethe’s Faust. For Kemple, this influence goes all the way down. Marx’s ‘wager’ is not just his lost bet with Engels that he would finish volume one by the end of the summer of 1865 (p. xii, n. 3). Like Faust, sickened by existing scholarship, in his case political economy, he engages himself in a lifetime struggle against it and thereby to provide the intellectual resources for the overcoming of what Marx mostly called the bourgeois mode of production and soon came to be called capitalism. Like Faust, he will never rest on his laurels (Faulbett). As Kemple puts it, ‘my model is less Goethe’s life-long desire to transform his life into a work of art than Marx’s tireless efforts to create a literary representation of the capitalist world that might also contribute to its transformation. . .My own wager (hypothesis) in this book is that Faust is one of the best guides to Capital and that Capital is among our best guides to classical sociology and contemporary critical theory’ (pp. xii–xiii). A proof-reading error in the quoted passage has ‘word’ for world, but it could as well be a Freudian slip. Marx’s critique is both of the words of the classical and what he calls ‘vulgar’ political economists and of the reality which they more or less inadequately describe. And Goethe’s words are not just embellishment. In Marx’s classic discussion of commodity fetishism, for example,
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1177/1468795x221136830
M. Blute
After documenting Tarde’s neglect and placing him in the 19th-century sociological context, this paper argues that his concept of “imitation” was important because social learning (writ small) or culture (writ large), a non-genetic form of heredity, means that a distinct cultural evolutionary process including variation and selection resulting in descent with modification is inevitable. Beginning in the last half of the 20th century there was a flowering of theorizing and research about cultural evolution across the humanities and social sciences and eventually about culture in general in sociology. Unfortunately, what should have been recognized as Tarde’s role as a forefather of these has only occasionally been recognized.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221139971
C. Adair‐Toteff
This review focuses on one major work of Hans Kelsen which was first published in 1922 and is now included in the most recent volume of Hans Kelsen Werke. While Kelsen’s reputation is as a legal philosopher, this 1922 work shows that he had an excellent understanding of sociology, especially regarding Georg Simmel and Max Weber.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221138108
S. Turner, E. Kissi
Edward Shils’ and Michael Young’s “The Meaning of the Coronation,” took up crucial aspects of Shils’ thinking about differentiating types of social bonds, which led to his distinction between primordial, civil, and sacred bonds, and to his focus on center and periphery and the charisma of central institutions. The relation of these concepts to colonialism and post-colonialism is complex, but the reign and death of Elizabeth II illustrate them clearly. Colonial subjects responded to the same bonds, devised alternatives to them, and accepted the revisions represented by the Commonwealth after decolonization. But they also sought liberation from the colonized mind, and in doing so reconfirmed the centrality of the institutions they were attempting to liberate themselves from. Her death evoked dual reactions consistent with this problematic relation.
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