Academic literature on the topic 'Process of subjectivation'

This paper aims to analyze the relationship between listening techniques and technologies and forms of subjectivation in our current auditory culture compared to mid-20th century practices. Applying a media archaeological approach in order to unearth underlying histories of knowledge of the discussed technologies and practices offers a way of understanding how subjectivations and the constitution of environments in the context of large power regimes are intertwined. Against the theoretical backdrop of Gilles Deleuze’s text on “societies of control” and Erich Hörl’s notion of “Environmentalization”, the paper outlines conceptualizations of environments in different forms of sonic control that are inherent in practices and technologies of noise-cancelling headphones and specifi c Spotify playlists. The listening spaces that emerge in the analyzed practices/technologies reveal continuities as well as discontinuities when compared to their historical predecessors. Both the current phenomena are characterized by a process of advancing cybernetization and thus the formation of controllable environments. The depicted transformation corresponds to Deleuze’s observation of a new paradigm of power which he characterized as a shift from “molding” to “modulation”, i.e. a shift from a form-imposing to a self-regulating mode of power. Spotify’s concentration playlists and noisecancelling headphones both operate based on the principle of modulation and represent modes of environmental technologies. In the consideration of the subject-environment relationship on the other hand, current forms of subjectivation become apparent in cybernetic visions of control and environmental power. It is thus shown that listening spaces offer an approach to analyzing power and subjectivation.

This article highlights the impasses of anti-racist struggles that understand racism as an opinion or a prejudice and use education as their only means for addressing it. Racism should rather be understood as a socio-historical subjective structure rooted in the process of constitution of the division of labour on a global scale through colonialism, a process that was crucial to the institution of capitalism. This is why we will put forth the importance of rejecting the narrations that camouflage colonization with the idea of civilization, and the necessity to produce decolonial counter-histories. We will thus claim that such an endeavor should start from the struggles of racialized peoples against the different forms of coloniality—that is, from the refusal by racialized peoples of the representations that are imposed on them, and from their repositioning on the basis of their alterity. Only the position of a powerful alterity can in fact make possible a real equality.Cet article met en évidence les impasses des luttes antiracistes qui conçoivent le racisme comme une opinion ou un préjugé et utilisent l’éducation comme le seul moyen d’y remédier. Le racisme devrait plutôt être compris comme une structure socio-historique subjective qui s’enracine dans le procès de constitution de la division mondiale du travail par le colonialisme, un procès qui a été décisif pour l’institution du capitalisme. C’est pourquoi nous mettrons en avant le caractère problématique des récits qui recouvrent la colonisation de l’idée de civilisation et la nécessité de produire des contre-histoires décoloniales. Il s’agira alors de montrer que, pour ce faire, il faut partir des luttes des racisés contre les différentes formes de colonialité—c’est-à-dire du refus par les racisés des représentations qui leur sont adressées et de leur repositionnement à partir de leur altérité. Seule la position d’une altérité puissante peut, en effet, rendre possible une égalité réelle.

The model of capitalist subjectivation determines the generalization of competition as a norm of conduct, intimate individuals to conceive of themselves and behave like a company, order social relations according to the market model and change the logic of public policies. The present essay aims to understand, from the theoretical reference of P. Dardot C. Laval (2016a, 2016b, 2010), F. Guattari (1985, 1996), G. Alves (2008, 2011), D. Mancebo (2007, 2003), among others, how the subjectivity of the teaching worker of higher education is constituted, in the face of the current hegemonic expansion process of toyotista / neoliberal rationality, and how this process of capitalist subjectivation has interfered with working conditions and the mode / life project of education professionals. It is an exploratory study regarding the objectives and bibliographical information about the procedures of hermeneutic-analytical character. Initially, the essay deals with the transformations in the political-economic, cultural and productive structure inherent to the expansion of flexible capitalism, which underpinned the construction of a new model of "governance" and the formation of a new (self-governing) productive subject. Then, it presents the mechanisms and movements used by the toyotista / neoliberal rationality in the formation of a productivist and competitive subjectivity and its implications on the rhythms and working conditions. Finally, it intents to understand the metamorphoses of the teaching work, including the phenomenon related to the intensification and precarization of its working conditions, due to the process of capitalist subjectivation.

Este trabalho tem o propósito de investigar a produção do sujeito no contexto escolar neoliberal, a partir de Michel Foucault. Para tal, analisaremos de que maneira os dispositivos disciplinares atuam sobre os corpos desses sujeitos no contexto escolar como um todo para que, em um segundo momento, se possa refletir sobre as especificidades desses dispositivos no contexto neoliberal. Tal equação se traduz na forma do binômio: construir/fabricar sujeitos, compreendido também pelo processo de subjetivação. Portanto, este trabalho objetiva analisar os conceitos de disciplina e subjetivação em Foucault como forma de melhor compreender as influências do contexto neoliberal nos espaços de ensino contemporâneos.Palavras-chave: Escola. Subjetivação. Disciplina. Discipline and Subjectivation: the subject in the neoliberal school contextABSTRACT This work aims to investigate the formation of the subject in Michel. Foucault. To do so, we will analyze how disciplinary devices act on the bodies on these subjects in the school context, then in a second moment we can reflect on specificities of these devices in the neoliberal context. This equation translates itself into the binomial form: frame / create subjects, understood also by the process of subjectivation. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the concepts of discipline and subjectivation in Foucault in a way to better understand the influences of the neoliberal context in contemporary educational spaces.Keywords: School. Subjectivation. Discipline. Disciplina y Subjetivación: del sujeto en el contexto escolar neoliberalRESUMENEste trabajo tiene el propósito de investigar la producción del sujeto en el contexto escolar neoliberal, a partir de Michel Foucault. Para ello, analizaremos de qué manera los dispositivos disciplinares actúan sobre los cuerpos de esos sujetos en el contexto escolar como un todo para que, en un segundo momento, podamos reflexionar sobre las especificidades de esos dispositivos en el contexto neoliberal. Esta ecuación se traduce en la forma del binomio: construir / fabricar sujetos, comprendido también por el proceso de subjetivación. Por lo tanto, este trabajo objetiva analizar los conceptos de disciplina y subjetivación en Foucault como forma de comprender mejor las influencias del contexto neoliberal en los espacios de enseñanza contemporáneos.Palabras clave: Escuela. La subjetividade. La disciplina.

A partir de uma série enunciativa composta de textos veiculados na mídia, analisa-se o processo de subjetivação do chamado novo idoso. A articulação das memórias ali presentes aponta a objetivação de um idoso ativo social, financeira e sexualmente. Essa prática discursiva emerge de uma rede de poderes que, de um lado, busca gerir os corpos dessa faixa crescente da população e, de outro, promove uma injunção à adoção de tal padrão pelos sujeitos que são expostos a esses enunciados.PALAVRAS-CHAVE : Idoso. Mídia. Subjetivação.ABSTRACT From an enunciative series composed by texts conveyed in the media, we propose to analyze the process of subjectivation of called the new elderly. The articulation of memories present pointing the objectification of an elderly active socially, financially and sexually. This discursive practice emerges from a network of powers, on the one hand, it seeks to manage the bodies that range from increasing population and, on the other, promotes an injunction the adoption of such a pattern of subjects who are exposed to these statements.KEYWORDS: Elderly, Media. Subjectivation.

Abstract The author explores the socialist emancipation of women in Montenegro during World War II and its aftermath, using the example of the 8 March celebrations. The social life of this ‘holiday of the struggle of all the women in the world’ speaks powerfully of the strength and fortitude involved in the mobilization of women during the war and during the postwar building of socialist Yugoslavia, as well as the sudden modernization and unprecedented political subjectivation of women. The emancipatory potential of these processes turned out to be limited in the later period of stabilization of Yugoslav state socialism and largely forgotten in the postsocialist period. The author argues that the political subjectivation of women needs to be thought anew, as a process that does not take place in a vacuum or outside of a certain ideological matrix, whether socialist or liberal.

Seamus Heaney’s “Station Island” occupies an important place in Heaney’s work as it is an allegory of self-creation and subjectivation. It introduces a subject whose attempts at discovering and creating the self and identity are challenged by the socio-political atmosphere of Northern Ireland. This study sheds a new light on the process of aesthetic subjectivation, tracing the development of the subject’s personal and artistic abilities. Informed by different views about the art of self-creation, from philosophy, asceticism and art, including the ideas of Foucault and Deleuze, it traces the archaeology of personal and collective identities in this poem. The subject advances through a constant “curved” movement in order to unfold and reveal the fragments of his self. This movement is part of a strategy to circumvent social obstacles as he confronts a hostile space, the Other. Moreover, it positions him in various points of view, the sites that help him reveal the fragments of his self, once put together, constitute a complex mosaic representing a new and strong identity.

Abstract The definition of the self is a complex process which unfolds in everyday life though the use of objects and the performance of practices. Among others, food and culinary objects and practices contribute to the material foundation of subjectivation. Starting from De Certeau’s analysis of everyday life (1984) and adopting Warnier’s praxeological approach to subjectivation, our article aims at studying how two Moroccan women living in Milan’s suburbs make themselves through the materiality of food and related practices in a migration context. They move in peculiar ways among the constraints imposed both by the new local context and the country of origin food cultures. Through everyday food practices, women define a proper Moroccan “style” (Gell, 1998) made of diverse life stories as well as of an embodied collective memory anchored to materiality; they witness of different manners of being Moroccan, and of being it abroad.