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Desiring occupation: Theorising the passion, creativity, and social production of everyday life

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Pages 130-140 | Accepted 06 Dec 2020, Published online: 06 Mar 2021
 

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we operationalise a postmodern conceptualisation of desire in order to articulate occupation as a passionate, creative, and productive process that is entangled with the social world. Employing the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we use the concepts of assemblage and desire to theorise how passionate impulses are socially constructed and produce the flows of everyday life. The concept of assemblages refers to the dynamic webs of interconnection that make up our social world. The social and material elements within an assemblage (human, non-human, physical, non-physical) are continually shaping and being shaped by each other, entangled in an ongoing process of social production. In this paper, we theorise occupation as an assemblage, as a dynamic and social process that produces the flows of everyday life. The concept of desire refers to the creative impulse and passion that stirs individuals to create or act within their social world/assemblage. We present desire as a social force, one that is produced by the assemblages of everyday life and also one that produces everyday life. While the assemblages of everyday life have the potential to constrain desire, they also have the potential to creatively liberate the transformative potential of desire – generating liberating occupational flows.

在本文中,我们对欲望这一后现代概念化进行了界定,以便将生活活动表达为一种与社会型世界不可分割的充满激情、创造性和生产性的过程。运用吉尔·德勒兹和菲利克斯·加塔里的哲学思想,我们使用组合和欲望的概念,将激情冲动如何得以社会构建并产生日常生活流程加以理论化。组合的概念是指构成我们社会型世界的动态的互连网络。组合中的社会和物质元素(人类、非人类、物质、非物质)不断地相互塑造和被塑造,纠缠在一个持续的社会生产过程中。在本文中,我们将生活活动理论化为一种组合,一种产生日常生活流程的动态的和社会的过程。欲望概念是指激发个人在其社会型世界/组合中去创造或行动的创造性冲动和激情。我们将欲望呈现为一种社会力量,它是由日常生活的组合产生的,也是一种产生日常生活的力量。虽然日常生活的组合有可能抑制欲望,但它们也有可能创造性地解放欲望的变革潜力——产生解放性的生活活动流程。

En el presente trabajo operacionalizamos una conceptualización posmoderna del deseo, para articular la ocupación como un proceso apasionado, creativo y productivo engarzado al mundo social. Empleando la filosofía de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari, utilizamos los conceptos de ensamblaje y deseo para teorizar en torno a cómo los impulsos pasionales se construyen socialmente y producen los flujos de la vida cotidiana. El concepto de ensamblaje refiere a las redes dinámicas de interconexión que conforman nuestro mundo social. Los elementos sociales y materiales de un ensamblaje (humanos, no humanos, físicos, no físicos) se moldean continuamente y, a la vez, son moldeados por los demás, encontrándose interconectados en un proceso continuo de producción social. En este trabajo teorizamos sobre la ocupación como un ensamblaje, como un proceso dinámico y social que produce los flujos de la vida cotidiana. El concepto de deseo hace referencia al impulso creativo y a la pasión que mueve a los individuos a crear o a actuar dentro de su mundo social o su ensamblaje. Presentamos al deseo como una fuerza social, que es producida por los ensamblajes de la vida cotidiana al tiempo que produce la vida cotidiana. Aunque dichos ensamblajes tienen el potencial de limitar el deseo, también favorecen la liberación creativa del potencial transformador del deseo, generando flujos ocupacionales liberadores.

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