{"id":310,"date":"2008-09-03T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-09-22T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:12:21","slug":"an-alternative-social-ontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/03\/an-alternative-social-ontology\/","title":{"rendered":"An alternative social ontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our approach is predicated on the articulation of an alternative social ontology that stresses the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">radical contingency<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">structural incompleteness <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of all systems of social relations &#8230; [drawing on the Lacanian concept] the disruptive presence of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>THE REAL<\/strong> which marks the impossibility of any putative fullness of being, whether at the level of structures, subjects or discourses (11).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Following Bhaskar and others, we begin by assuming that any legitimate approach to social and political analysis requires at least some ontological assumptions and commitments &#8230; However, in our view the importance of ontology is not just about <em>what<\/em> sorts of things exist, but <em>that<\/em> they exist and <em>how<\/em> they exist.\u00a0 Indeed, of capital importance in this regard is the fact that objects and subjects are marked by an &#8216;essential instability&#8217; that problematizes a simple listing of their necessary intrinsic properties and causal capacities.\u00a0 Therefore, of greater import for us is their contingency, historicity and precariousness &#8230; this perspective enables us to highlight the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>constructed<\/em> and <em>political<\/em> character of social objectivity<\/span>, and then to articulate a connected series of concepts and logics that can help us to analyse social relations and processes, while remaining faithful to our ontological commitments (11).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our approach is predicated on the articulation of an alternative social ontology that stresses the radical contingency and structural incompleteness of all systems of social relations &#8230; [drawing on the Lacanian concept] the disruptive presence of THE REAL which marks the impossibility of any putative fullness of being, whether at the level of structures, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/03\/an-alternative-social-ontology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An alternative social ontology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}