Les puissances subjectives de la nature selon Gabriel Tarde

Nous avons dans cet article tenté d’assumer pleinement la revendication métaphysique qui anime la pensée de Tarde, à savoir l’idée que le réel ne serait fait ni de substances statiques ni de représentations, mais de sujets véritables, humains et non-humains. L’extension inédite qu’opère Tarde de la notion de sujet à tous les aspects de la réalité trouve, selon nous, aujourd’hui une nouvelle actualité dans les articulations entre nature et subjectivités. La nature ne serait pas une réalité matérielle face à des sujets qui se la représenteraient et y projetteraient leurs valeurs, leurs dimensions esthétiques et leurs représentations ; elle devient, par Tarde, le foyer d’innombrables activités subjectives, reliées les unes aux autres.This article is an attempt to accept completely the metaphysical claim that motivated Tarde’s thought: the concept that reality consists of neither static substances nor representations but rather of authentic human and non-human subjects. Tarde’s unprecedented extension of the notion of subject to all aspects of reality assumes, we feel, a new relevance today in the links between nature and subjectivities. Nature is not a material reality in the face of subjects that represent it and on which they project their values, their aesthetic dimensions and their representations; in Tarde’s view, nature becomes the home of countless subjective activities connected with one another

O Universo Perspectivista: Natureza e subjetividade na metafísica contemporânea

RESUMO: Neste artigo, Didier Debaise aborda a metafísica moderna, buscando propor uma metafísica alternativa, a qual qualifica de perspectivista. O autor avança a hipótese de que o conceito de Natureza foi a maneira que os modernos encontraram de habitar a terra. Na primeira parte do artigo, Os fundamentos do naturalismo metafísico, ele explica, seguindo o diagnóstico de Whitehead da modernidade, como a reificação dos gestos e operações da ciência experimental nascente fundou uma metafísica baseada na bifurcação entre qualidades primárias e secundárias. A segunda seção, A experiência perspectivista, busca livrar-se da noção de natureza a partir da afirmação radical do filosofia especulativa de Whitehead de que não se pode excluir da filosofia nada que ocorre na experiência. Debaise propõe três operações inerentes ao estabelecimento de um perspectivismo metafísico: fazer de todo ser uma subjetividade; inscrever todos os seres em uma mesma lógica unívoca; e fazer da perspectiva uma atividade possessiva. Através dessas operações, o autor não busca fundamentar uma proposta metafísica mais autêntica do que a metafísica moderna, mas sim um aparato artificial, construtivista, pragmático que ambiciona nada excluir: nem os seres, nem as modalidades de existência

Speculative Narration. A Conversation with Valérie Pihet, Didier Debaise, Katrin Solhdju and Fabrizio Terranova

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Monadology and ethnography: Towards a Tardian monadic

This article outlines the project of a ‘monadic ethnography’ based on Gabriel Tarde’s monadology. Tarde’s key contention is that ‘everything is a society’, i.e. that the world is made up of composite and relational entities of infinitesimal complexity called monads. These assemblages of heterogeneous elements engaged in relations of mutual possession constitute the object of study of ‘monadic ethnography’. Their analysis, in turn, has a series of methodological and formal implications, including a transformation of concepts of scale, spatiality and temporality and the need to find representational strategies suitable for conveying the monads’ dynamic qualities. A fieldwork example which discusses the making of a car part in a small workshop based in the Can Ricart factory in Barcelona is provided. Throughout the article, the idea of ‘monadic ethnography’ is discussed in relation to the recent rediscovery of Tarde’s work, the work of Bruno Latour and Gilles Deleuze, and the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in the social sciences

Continuité et discontinuité des processus d’individuation

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Qu'est-ce qu'une subjectivité non-humaine? L'héritage néo-monadologique de B. Latour

This article proposes a reading of Bruno Latour's work by inscribing his thought within a « neomonadological » tradition. The specificity of this approach consists in simultaneously detaching the subject from anthropological questions and nature from the idea of an innate substance. In short: such a philosophy calls for a pluralistic conception of nature made of various levels of human and non-human subjectivities.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

La question du corps chez Cronenberg

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Les puissances de la matière. L'étrange matérialisme de Bruno Latour.

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Vie et propositions. La philosophie spéculative à l'épreuve du vivant.

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