Myśleć globalnie, badać lokalnie. Tyrania chwili, przemoc strukturalna a nowoczesny system-świat

• Authors: Andrzej W. Nowak

Title variants

EN

Think Globally, Study Locally. Tyranny of the Moment, Structural Violence and Modern World-system

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Article is a trying to merge two theories: actor-network theory (ANT) and world-system analysis (WSA). Such a synthesis gives us an opportunity to combine an ethnographic approach, focused on actors analysis of ANT, with a networked, global perspective proposed by WSA. Both theories share the same type of holistic/ecological ontology of human societies. This similarity is fully visible if we compare a notion of the collective (Latour) and a notion of world-system (WSA). This is challenge to traditional, modernist views of social ontology. Author propose a concept of “ontological imagination”, as a solution. This is proposition a radicalized version of “sociological imagination (C. W. Mills), more suitable to technoscientific societies. In the paper the theoretical considerations are supplemented by a case study about “tyranny of the moment” as an example of acceleration in contemporary culture. Article propose model of social time in global context. Time is treated as a very important factor in global inequalities within structures if modern world-system.

Keywords

EN

Actor-Network Theory; world-system analysis; holistic/ecological ontology; “ontological imagination”; “tyranny of the moment”

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 2(16)
• Pages: 148–166

Dates

online

2013-07-15

Contributors

author

Andrzej W. Nowak

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843860PK.13.014.1279