Modes of Connection

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ID20071710
AuthorsM Savransky (0000-0002-0807-8350, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages121-151
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAdventure of Relevance (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-57146-5_5
OpenAlexW2511433855
ISBN9781137571465
LanguageEN
References cited39

Demands for relevance often become manifest as suspicions about the impact of social scientific inventions beyond the academy. In Chap. 5 , Savransky addresses the question of how to think about the effects that knowledge makes to the worlds with which it connects. While those traditions that have embraced a logic of ‘performativity’ may seem well equipped to give an account of this process, Savransky shows that this logic tends to exaggerate claims to efficacy by oversimplifying the ecological relationships between inventions and the milieus with which they connect. In contrast, Savransky calls for attention to the dynamic and circulating forms of causality involved in making connections and examines the complexities of one historical case—the forced introduction of the concept of ‘belief’ in Colonial India

Causality (physics) · Connection (principal bundle) · Epistemology · Performativity · Political science · Process (computing) · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography

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