Archive du mois : décembre 2021
Je continue – étant moi-même broyée ces temps-ci par ces machines, dans la mâchoire du truc – à fouiller dans les subjectivités modernes ou néolibérales et leurs formes émergentes dont certaines viennent non pas seulement s’exprimer mais se former dans l’espace universitaire. Je dis modernes parce que prise avec bonheur et précision dans la poursuite de la réflexion sociologique d’Eva Illouz, sur des objets aussi outlandish et extrêmes pour la sociologie que l’amour, Why Love Hurts contd. Et que...
A very strange experience, setting out into Lukianoff and Haidt’s Coddling of the American Mind. The voice of reason, moderation (in a smartingly hot context), plus the sweetness of American men (which sociology here?). The very astute first enunciative take, with the sweetly mocking Misoponos fable and the 3 Great Untruths (of current « campus » culture). Place the derision, inoffensive, defuse; captatio, and benevolence all round. Effortless but also very studied, apt, artful possibly – as the relational condition...
Eva Illouz, luminous as she can be. The cruelty of sociology and its source of relief too, as disindividualization. Unstrangulating. Confusion is a psychological trait, but its etiology often has a sociological basis. (Why Love Hurts, 135) As simple as that. Pointed. The implication of Hegel, slave & master dynamics in the subject / object patterns of recognition, with the Kojève input : particularly clarifying. On the modern contradiction of the subject. And of course then Butler. 130-131. I remember the...
