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A Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a domain of acts, practices, and thoughts that seem to me to pose problem for politics.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a methodological approach (within genealogy) whereby, for any period or milieu, in any text or discourse, one is look for what it is that is problematized, for what is the subject of concern, reflection, and uncertainty, and one should investigate the form which that concern and reflection takes.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a mode of analysis whose task is primarily to call into question taken-for-granted assumptions and identities and settlements.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a moral breakdown.

A Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a problem that arises out of practices which conform to a quasi-third party model.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a process whereby there is the relation of thought and reality.

A Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a reorganization around a new set of issues.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a style of critique whose principal target is the apparently self-evident assumptions of a given form of life and the (supposedly) natural or inevitable and unchangeable character of given identities.

A Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always a kind of creation... but a creation in the sense that, given a certain situation, you cannot infer that this kind of problematization will follow.

The Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an 'answer' to a concrete situation which is real.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an approach aimed at demystifying the category of the 'real' by showing how objects of knowledge are constituted.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠when the difficulties inherent in any field of action are intensified or given further amplification, rather than exposed or revealed for the first time.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at one and the same time the object of inquiry (noun), and a style of critique (verb).

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠better understood not in terms of conventions of critical theories that seek to expose the power-ridden quality of processes of subject-formation, but rather, in relation to the more or less implicit theory of action that emerges from foucault's late works.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with determining problems, unleashing them, revealing them within the framework of such complexity as to shut the mouths of prophets and legislators: All those who speak for others and above others.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with the analysis not of behaviors or ideas, nor societies and their 'ideologies,' but of the problematizations through which being offers itself to be, necessarily, thought, and the practices on the basis of which these problematizations are formed.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with the development of a given into a question, a transformation of a group of obstacles and difficulties into problems to which the diverse solutions will attempt to produce a response.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠dual-dimensional, on the one hand it is a nominal object of inquiry (i.e. The idea that certains problem that appear to be naturally given or objective are actually the effect of historical processes, social practices, and political strategies) and on the other it is an act of critical inquiry (whose task is to expose the contingency of the apparently stable and taken-for-granted definitions of problems).

Problematization (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for Foucault, a more analytic orientation to problems whereas for deleuze it is a resolutely philosophical exercise.

Problematization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠formulated as the object of a program of research on practices through which people willfully take aspects of their own selves to be the material of ethical concern.