Towards Asignifying Modernity: A Critique on the Interests that Shaped Social Sciences and Social Work
20 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2016
Date Written: April 21, 2016
Abstract
The paper is about interests. It attempts to point out that politics of historically sustained and discursively reproduced interests constitute the assemblage of modernity. The politics is traced through exploring how social sciences and social work replaced political philosophy and charity within discursive planes of modernity yielding to the interests forming them. The first part of the paper discusses modernity as the subjective individuation of its formative interests. Second part deliberates on semantic and incorporeal significations that presented modernity as tightly networked truth. It is argued that the modern social is a hierarchically ordered predatory force field sustained through networks of significations.Towards the end, in lieu of the conclusion, the paper invites for discussions counter-signifying modernity.
Keywords: asignify, discourse, interest, manifold, metaphysics, milieu, modernity, social, work, social work
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