J.Rice

admin October 9th, 2009

1 culture
3 life – general term
linear history being usurped by myth – affectual
4 sociality’s puissance – its power
refusing instrumental knowledge
5 need not discover the ultimate truth – so we use metaphor
6 tribes
not a subject of a historical moment
7 this is a theoretical method
9 individualism obscures contemporary thinking
10 my personal history is a myth
11 neo-tribalism is the loss in a collective subject
12 emotional community
13 reason does not inform opinion as much as collectively held emotions
14 binary logic of separation is no longer applicable
15 space favors an aesthetics and excludes an ethics
groupism
16 community oriented not to future – but to being together
18 various social activities may not solve problems (they are band aids) but they do mobilize collective emotion
collective sensibility which issues from the aesthetic results in ethical connection
19 tribe is to explain the ecstasy of small group
20 rituals are inverted until they become the basis of sociality
habitus – custom (along with aesthetic and ethic) to characterize everyday
21 a black market sociality
23 culture – made up of varied nothings which make up a system
** thus it is possible to explain all  the friendship networks which have no goal other than congregating
reliance – the link – experienced for its own sake
proxemics play a role
25 embodied knowledge rooted in customs
26 mythic function (informed by mass media) runs through social life
28 among tribes the common ingredient is shared sensibility or emotion
31 we are now entering a tactile phase where proximity dominates
can now examine vitalism
32 when power is not obvious in revolts etc it is concentrated in secret groups – networks, tribes
daily life lived for its own sake and not for a finality
extrinsic vs intrinsic power
33 dynamic rootedness
out of end of social order can emerge a vital instinct
*34 while institutions collapse, communities thrive
37 the necessity for underground centrality
a secret behavior of the group hidden from the outside
*40 tribalism based on religion and localism  – age of individual coming to a close
41 technical advances bolster ties
42 worship replaced by celebrity or related figure
44 sociality being born owes nothing to previous socio-political world
sociality is mastered in secret, near, insignificant
45 puissance characteristic of social divine
46 puissance is aloofness
48 always a demonic wisdom in social body that leads to retreat
49 pretend/sincerity  – duplicity allows us to live
by pretending we participate in idea that a community did exist
57 masses perceived as pejorative by intellectuals
58 history as creation of masses
61 those who “protect” masses or speak for them, may in fact oppress them
62 last century saw class take place of masses
63 masses worship and burn down their spokesman
power deals w/management of life/ puissance assumes mantle of survival
a link b/w puissance and everyday life
64 individual histories instead of history
close rapport b/w individual and political
but we favor loss of idea of individual in favor of less distinct mass
65 identity tied to temporal or spatial
identity is willingness to be something determined
66 individual has a function, person plays a ROLE
desire for imitation and conformity – vitalism
69 collective memory can serve as revelation of individual acts and experiences
72 by focusing on disenchantment w/world we miss the networks of solidarity we are in
a stylistic view allows us to pass from political order to realm of identification
-    this is where the emphasis is on affective
73 not to moralize but to trace a logic of identification
email / social networks they are signs of an ethos in gestation – what we can call sociality
74 solidarity – its myth – is backdrop to group phenomenon today
75 large object mass conceals smaller object groups which diffract to infinity
76 collective interference – personal opinion really belongs to the group
neo tribalism characterized by fluidity, occasional gatherings, and dispersal
sociality – person plays roles – not a function as they do in social
77 return of image and sensation linked to logic of touch
religion – reliance – binding together
78 a cause of saturation – too much – that creates de-institutionalization
*sociality allows us to be aware of and present at the birth of emerging forms
79 social life can only be determined in relation to the group
group: community of ideas, impersonal preoccupations, stability of structure which goes beyond the individual
based on shared feeling
81 thread of reciprocity woven through individuals
a stylized existence
85 religious models describe networks – not bound by centrality or even rationality
86 elective sociality
social aggregations tied to logic of network
87 outpouring of feelings – association of future – networks
88 the debate on structure & History is being replaced by chance and everyday histories
society cannot be understood by any old rational mechanism – it is experienced through encounters and situations
for Hegel, individuals don’t come first – their relations do
89 attraction and repulsion are the cause/effect of relationism
90 the vague and ambiguous prevails (as opposed to identity) – ambience
one characteristic of mass is SECRECY
91 secrecy leads to resistance
94 family
95 w/secrecy we have saturation of individuation/ and increasing development of communication (paradox)
tribalism and massification go hand in hand
essence of secret society is autonomy
*96 what is important is the energy expended on becoming a tribe
constitution of micro groups in network is the final expression of creativity of the masses
97 tribal logic is relationist perspective
98 bond refers to ambience, state of mind, and expressed through lifestyles that favor appearance and form
104 of triplicity
postmodernity obsessed by idea of the clan
consensus is not uniquely rational
need to think of third person outsider
106 networks based on integration and affective refusal
110 heterogeneity is only beginning  – can’t deny stranger – we are barbarians ourselves
110 relativity of values results in UNDECIDEABLITY
* 112 perhaps we should say that there are periods in which masses are saturated with rational, finalized, productivist, and economistic explanations and procedures – and return to ecological substrate of social life
115 difference – or the other/outsider – must be integrated into new balance
equilibrium founded on heterogeneous
masses as contradictory entity that integrates other (doesn’t make other evil)
116 conflict and communication
117 role and function again
119 clan process can be balance b/w expression of difference and expression of everyone
123 we deal with the big entities, but not the ordinary
sometimes – the everyday is more important than the great histories
the everyday makes up the network
thus – proxemics  – relations – time crystallized in space
history of space is a personal history
124 history vs myth (the forces – or vitalism – that drive both)
diversity assures unicity
125 puissance – the close and daily create power
126 an aura
cannot act upon History – but must negotiate (go back to Ulmer’s end – he calls for a negotiation over navigation)
do not overcome contradictions – instead – “let’s make do” (Simon’s “good enough”)
127 relationships founded on proxemics – however – are not comforting
the return of the affective, passional, investment – which is structurally ambivalent
the matrix runs by aura (contradiction w/Benjamin’s notion of aura in age of reproduction?)
128 rational logic is saturated – we now deal w/contradictions
link b/w spatial, global, and intuitive emotional
129 turning to the everyday is not a turning inward but to the nearby
130 every social form is a pattern passed through centuries
131 location becomes connection
132 link b/w collective sentiment and space
134 existential aesthetic
135 regardless of which space, there is a specific aura in which we participate
136 relationship b/w territory and collective memory
138 advertising addresses target audiences – TRIBES
within one culture there can be both individual and collective aspects
139 communication tied to feeling of belonging – function of an ethic within a network
multitude of villages
electronic nebula – where tribalism depends on an occasion
140 singles but not in isolation
141 tie means “of necessity”  – obligation
142 outsider can be a group functioning as intermediary
proxemics are the intermediary
143 a new social aggregation is emerging
tribe is the metaphor that translates the emotional aspect – a new social logic
144 non-rational is not irrational – it is a different type of logic
affective has its own rationality  – not the same as Enlightenment’s sense of questioning and using logic
19th century to now – extrinsic / Now –intrinsic logic
organized around guru (icon) that binds
145 social life depends on kairos – where play begins
gossip
146 rumor mills show network structures as information moves from tribe to tribe
with links information transmitted via atmosphere
147 network of networks – space where everything is combined, multiplied and reduced
participating in a multitude of tribes allows each person to live intrinsic – tribes are linked
147-8 the everyday – lived experience – is the glue of the network
152 culture of knowledge/culture of sentiment
there is no culture on one side/nature on the other (Latour)
153 the rational order of “ought” leaves out a more complex order
154 underground centrality states that many social phenomenon – while not finalized – have their own specificity
this is an explanation of tribe – it is not a finalized “thing”  but has puissance
159 societies become complex by using procedures that are complex
*160 quality of intellectual research is not worse that it was at other times
we are experiencing many ideologies lived day to day
161 centrifugal – always in search of what lies beyond as opposed to centripetal (focusing inward – on subject at hand without worrying about contradictions)
centrifugal is ought
163 History deprives histories of their place
164 what are the structures of the passional order?

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