Erik Axel
Biographic Data
| ID | 194535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Axel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Axel |
| SIGNATURE | AXEL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0877-9867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Distributing resources in a construction project: Conflictual co-operation about a common cause and its theoretical implications
An investigation of a design project is presented with concepts and theory developed within critical psychology in order to understand the process. Investigating the co-operation of the design of a building allows us to see that the building, its design, and its use constitute common contradictory causes. In their co-ordinated activities, professionals participate from each of their perspectives with different functions and priorities, and in the…
Subjectivity, Conflictuality, and Generalization in Social Praxis
Conflictual Cooperation
This paper explores cooperation as contradictory and therefore with a constant possibility for conflict. Consequently it is called conflictual cooperation. The notion is presented on the basis of a participatory observation in a control room of a district heating system. In the investigation, cooperation appeared as the continuous reworking of contradictions in the local arrangement of societal con- ditions. Subjects were distributed and distribu…
What Makes us Talk about Wing Nuts: Critical Psychology and Subjects at Work
Critical Psychology is discussed as an historical science of the subject. The confrontation of human and machine is used to differentiate subjects in action from notions of isolated, formal mental mechanisms. An investigation of operators' regulation in a control room reveals issues of how subjects must re-arrange conditions to act more appropriately. The operators do not know everything necessary to act. This means that they must act on the basi…
The Abstract Zone of Proximal Conditions
Newman and Holzman's reformulation of Vygotskyan psychology, centering around the notions of `tool and result', `the practice of method', and `completion', are, like their later attempts to criticize and find practice-based alternatives to scientific psychology, and even to epistemology in general, thought-provoking and relevant. It may be, however, that the author's reference to `practice', in particular with the postmodern turn to `performance'…
Coming of Age in Birmingham: Cultural Studies and Conceptions of Subjectivity
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
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Coming of Age in Birmingham: Cultural Studies and Conceptions of Subjectivity
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Abstract Zone of Proximal Conditions
Newman and Holzman's reformulation of Vygotskyan psychology, centering around the notions of `tool and result', `the practice of method', and `completion', are, like their later attempts to criticize and find practice-based alternatives to scientific psychology, and even to epistemology in general, thought-provoking and relevant. It may be, however, that the author's reference to `practice', in particular with the postmodern turn to `performance'…
What Makes us Talk about Wing Nuts: Critical Psychology and Subjects at Work
Critical Psychology is discussed as an historical science of the subject. The confrontation of human and machine is used to differentiate subjects in action from notions of isolated, formal mental mechanisms. An investigation of operators' regulation in a control room reveals issues of how subjects must re-arrange conditions to act more appropriately. The operators do not know everything necessary to act. This means that they must act on the basi…
Conflictual Cooperation
This paper explores cooperation as contradictory and therefore with a constant possibility for conflict. Consequently it is called conflictual cooperation. The notion is presented on the basis of a participatory observation in a control room of a district heating system. In the investigation, cooperation appeared as the continuous reworking of contradictions in the local arrangement of societal con- ditions. Subjects were distributed and distribu…
Subjectivity, Conflictuality, and Generalization in Social Praxis
Distributing resources in a construction project: Conflictual co-operation about a common cause and its theoretical implications
An investigation of a design project is presented with concepts and theory developed within critical psychology in order to understand the process. Investigating the co-operation of the design of a building allows us to see that the building, its design, and its use constitute common contradictory causes. In their co-ordinated activities, professionals participate from each of their perspectives with different functions and priorities, and in the…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (2 works) · Subjectivity (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)