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TY - CHAP
T1 - Epilogue: Performativity and the becoming of sociomaterial assemblages
AU - Introna, Lucas
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This book offers many interesting chapters. All focus directly or indirectly on the socio/material relation and there are indeed some very compelling analyses of sociomaterial entanglements presented. Although they all, more or less, attempt to go beyond the socio/material dualism (or duality), there still seems to be a significant element of this dualism (or duality) lurking behind the analyses, some more explicitly than others. Somehow most of them end by positing the human and the non-human as essentially different types of being whose entanglement with each other needs to be explained, as being unusual. I would suggest that when the duality is actually abandoned, this heterogeneous entanglement need not be explained, it simply needs to be described in its actuality. But what would this mean? In this epilogue I want to try to outline what it means to accept fully a process ontology which is not based on such a socio/material bifurcation — that is, an ontology of becoming.
AB - This book offers many interesting chapters. All focus directly or indirectly on the socio/material relation and there are indeed some very compelling analyses of sociomaterial entanglements presented. Although they all, more or less, attempt to go beyond the socio/material dualism (or duality), there still seems to be a significant element of this dualism (or duality) lurking behind the analyses, some more explicitly than others. Somehow most of them end by positing the human and the non-human as essentially different types of being whose entanglement with each other needs to be explained, as being unusual. I would suggest that when the duality is actually abandoned, this heterogeneous entanglement need not be explained, it simply needs to be described in its actuality. But what would this mean? In this epilogue I want to try to outline what it means to accept fully a process ontology which is not based on such a socio/material bifurcation — that is, an ontology of becoming.
U2 - 10.1057/9781137304094_17
DO - 10.1057/9781137304094_17
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781137304087
T3 - Technology, Work and Globalization
SP - 330
EP - 342
BT - Materiality and Space
A2 - de Vaujany , Francois-Xavier
A2 - Mitev, Nathalie
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -