ISBN:
9781472524058
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (225 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Parallel Title:
Print version New Philosophy of Social Conflict : Mediating Collective Trauma and Transitional Justice
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A New Philosophy of Social Conflict joins in the contemporary conflict resolution and transitional justice debates by contributing a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the post-genocide justice and reconciliation experiment in Rwanda -the Gacaca courts. In doing so, Hawes addresses two significant problems for which the work of Deleuze and Guattari provides invaluable insight: how to live ethically with the consequences of conflict and trauma and how to negotiate the chaos of living through trauma, in ways that create self-organizing, discursive processes for resolving and reconciling these ontolog
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Transcendental Empiricism; The revaluation of violent conflict, collective trauma and transitional justice; Rwandan gaçaça courts; Rwandan genocide genealogy; A gaçaça 'event'; Articulation and transformative practice; A necessary theoretical detour; Chapter 1 Becoming Conflict, Chaos and Trauma; Chapter overview; The genesis of representation; Primary order; Three passive syntheses; Sublimation and symbolization; Eternal return and counter-actualization; Territorial assemblages of conflict
Description / Table of Contents:
Regression and descent into violenceDesiring-production, social-production and social conflict; Intra-state-sponsored violence; Immanence and transcendence; Chapter 2 Rethinking Social Conflict Theory; Chapter overview; Colonial and post-colonial Rwanda; Agonistics, antagonistics and the democratic paradox; Axiomatic capitalism; Rationality and libidinality; Generic theory, rational conflict and universal needs; Schizoanalysis and collective assemblages of enunciation; Schizoanalysis and machinic assemblages of trauma; Chapter 3 Intuiting Attunement to Conflict Duration; Chapter overview
Description / Table of Contents:
Intuition and badly stated questions of conflictDeleuze and Bergson on the method of intuition; Conflict, representation and time; Intuiting beyond the decisive turn; An ethic of truth-effects; Reconciling trauma durationally; Gaçaça courts as partial war machines; Chapter 4 Minor Communication, Regimes of Signs and Conversing Machines; Chapter overview; Rwanda as a territorial assemblage; War machines and killing machines; Minor communication; Regimes of signs; Conversing machines; Conversational flows and traces; Conversing bodies; Taking and returning to turns
Description / Table of Contents:
Collective enunciation and desiring-utterancesPlanes and properties of utterances; Conversing a politics of turn-taking; Chapter 5 Order-Words, Truth-Procedures and Desiring-Utterances; Chapter overview; Order-words and genocide; Indirect and direct discourse; Quasi-direct discourse; An ethic of witnessing and willingness; Questions articulating desire to discourse; Questions of desire and imagination; Questions of subjectivation and experience; Questions of will and agency; Questions of resistance and resolve; Desiring-utterances and the gaçaça process; Performative turns; Distributive turns
Description / Table of Contents:
Integrative turnsAfterword - Schizoanalysis and Nomadic Discourse; A pragmatics of human communication; Contemporary historical context; Axiom 1: The impossibility of not communicating; Axiom 2: Content and relationship levels of communication; Axiom 3: The punctuation of the sequence of events; Axiom 4: Digital and analogic communication; Axiom 5: Symmetrical and complementary interaction; Limitations; A schizoanalytics of nomadic discourse; First principle: Universal singularities; Second principle: Politics of language; Third principle: Immanence of articulation
Description / Table of Contents:
Three syntheses of libidinality/desire
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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