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antisocial tendency

exhaustion

is a certain type of circulation that can travel endlessly without ever encountering the micro-level.

`Actor' is not here to play the role of agency and `network' to play the role of society. Actor and network -if we want to still use the termsdesignates two faces of the same phenomenon, like wave and particles, the slow realisation that the social is a certain type of circulation that can travel endlessly without ever encountering the micro-level -there is never an interaction that is not framednor the macro-level -there are only local summing up. (Latour 1998: on recalling : 3)

is a deplorable mix of categories that should have been separated (labour, work, and action).

For Arendt, the social is a deplorable mix of categories that should have been separated (labour, work, and action).

is a kind of bastard hybrid of public and private.

Dana Villa's capturing phrasing of the problem at stake, for Arendt, the social '[ ] is a kind of bastard hybrid of public and private.'

is a specific range of knowledge forms, modes of technical intervention, and institutional arrangements.

To illustrate, we may consider a set of chapters that deal with the modern 'social.' Here, 'the social' refers not to the framework of sociological analysis ('society') but to a specific range of knowledge forms, modes of technical intervention, and institutional arrangements. These include mechanisms of economic coordination or regulation and institutions of social citizenship that defined the norms and forms of collective life for most residents of urbanizing and industrializing countries over the course of the 20th century' (Collier and Ong 2005:15)

is more than economic growth and mass society... it also deals with interactions with those who would seem unlikely.

For Arendt, the social is more than economic growth and mass society... it also deals with interactions with those who would seem unlikely. Arendt's focus on this . . .

is nothing other than patterned network of heterogeneous materials.

This, then, is the crucial analytical move made by actor-network writers: the suggestion that the social is nothing other than patterned networks of heterogeneous materials. (Law 1992 : .pdf)

is simply two or more people engaging in interaction such that the one is seen as a response to that of the other.

the idea is that the social exist when two r more peole engage in interaction with each other, and when the behaviour of one is seen as a response to the behavior of the other' (Barnard 2000:81).' the 'social' emerged: a fusion of state and social interests that merged their practical roles and legal definitions.' arendt (spark habermas)

1s 2imit must be given within the social itself as something subverting it, destroying its ambition to constitute a full presence. Society never manages fully to be society, because everything in it is penetrated by its limits, which prevent it from constituting itself as an objective reality.

As Laclau and Mouffe explain, 'The limit of the social must be given within the social itself as something subverting it, destroying its ambition to constitute a full presence. Society never manages fully to be society, because everything in it is penetrated by its limits, which prevent it from constituting itself as an objective reality' (l 985, 127). (336-7)

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