The Culture of Abstraction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Toscano (0009-0007-5156-5414, Universidad de Londres, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 57-75 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276408091983 |
| OpenAlex | W1968980649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 15 |
Focusing especially on Science and the Modern World, this article explores Whitehead's understanding of the social contexts and repercussions of mathematical and scientific abstraction. It investigates his remarks on the need to offset pernicious practices of abstraction in the context of a renewed concern with the link between conceptuality and materiality in social theory. Whitehead's inquiry into the problematic legacy of Galileo and scientific materialism is then contrasted with a different diagnosis of the abstractive maladies of modern society, the one put forward under the Marxist rubric of 'real abstraction'. While both stances allow us to explore the social repercussions of abstractive practices, it is argued that an understanding of the practically abstract character of capitalism permits us to identify the limits of Whitehead's pedagogical wish to reform our culture of abstraction
Abstraction · Aesthetics · Capitalism · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Why are we still suffering from the blind spot
Abstracja od konkretu
Abstraction, diffraction, experimentation
Mapping the space of flows
Skimming the surface
A abstracção na modernidade. Da origem aos efeitos objectivos
Cosine capital
Bringing the world into the world’
Globalizing’ academics? Ranking and appropriation in the transformations of the world-system
Abstraction Beyond a ‘Law of Thought’
The Open Secret of Real Abstraction
The Transcendental Force of Money
The Hidden Abodes of Capitalist Space
The algorithmic network imaginary
Equation and Adequation
Abjection and Formlessness
The limits of responsibility
The violence of planning law and the production of risk in Lima
A critique of new materialism
Geography and abstraction
Hacia una sociología de la abstracción
Strategies of critique in International Relations
On natural-social commodities. The form and value of things
Fetishistic concrete abstraction, social constitution and social domination in Henri Lefebvre's writings on everyday life, cities and space
Postone and Conceptions of Nature
The body as infrastructure
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification
On the use of abstractions in sociology
Third Nature
Inheriting Cosmopolitics
Fight or flight? Exploring suicide thoughts, experiences, and behaviours among correctional workers and their interventions of agency
Labour, Enclosure, and Form in World Literature
The invention of modern science
Time, Labor, and Social Domination
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
Intellectual and Manual Labour
Abstraction versus Contradiction
Marx's ‘Truly Social’ Labour Theory of Value
Abstract Labour and Capital
Marx's “Truly Social” Labour Theory of Value
Political Marxism and Value Theory
The Open Secret of Real Abstraction
A.N. Whitehead, Information and Social Theory
Pandora's hope
Critique of Marx's 1857 Introduction
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,78 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |