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Ontological Insecurity
...a loss of confidence and trust in the world as it appearsas it appears to be
Much of the process of addressing ontological insecurity takes place in the ‘private’ realm...
Ontological (In)security
Social Identity work Ongoing process Politics of Exclusion
Question of class Post vs. Late Modernity Saving a concept...
Bauman’s Liquid Bauman’s Liquid ConceptsConcepts
Liquid ModernityLiquid Modernity
HyperpluralismHyperpluralism
Class: vague terminology: Is Class: vague terminology: Is he speaking of upward he speaking of upward mobility freedom or symbolic mobility freedom or symbolic class (renegotiating identity class (renegotiating identity through consumption)? through consumption)?
Issue of empirical evidence...Issue of empirical evidence...
The Issue of Class...aside?
“Because capitalism no longer engages society as producersproducers in its reproduction...but as consumers, consumers, it is now the freedom freedom to consume and to choose which symbols of self-identity are to be appropriated”, which constitute social order.
Theory/Praxis
The issue of ontological insecurity (anxiety) is not problematic once it is bracketed away from the postmodern assumption about the disappearance of class... Security is still up for sale...
“Freedom” and “Natural” environments
‘Freedom’: Adorno & Frankfurt School
False consciousnessFalse consciousness No Autonomy?
How are virtual/real spaces more/less valuable?
Consequences of Home Ownership
Identity is ‘real’ Anxiety is ‘real’
Freedom’s just another word for... Vocabulary of
Motives about... Personalized failure*
Failed to learn Failed to try hard
enough Failed to be confident Failed to be persuasive And on and on it goes...
“Unprecedented” levels of anxiety...
*Seriously, fuck that...
Home Ownership
Dupuis & Thorns
Home (property) is explained as...
A site free from surveillance
Sense of controlcontrol PredictablePredictable routines PredictablePredictable
relationships
Home Ownership
How are we How are we convinced home convinced home ownership is a ownership is a solution?solution?
Property relations - social identity
Governing through crime?
Hyperpluralism Anxiety about social social
identityidentity... Micro- individual Meso – social (institution +
individual) Macro – institutional
Looking for “the next” secure thing...
Hyperpluralism & Mass Media:
The goal of a mass simulation culture is psychoanalysis in reverse - reverse enlightenment (Frankfurt School).
Despair as a structure The parts that were just yours,
are now general property Confession culture?
Pleasure principal of mass media (spectacle)
HyperpluralismResponses to
Hyperpluralism Change reinvent resist
Protests...
Recede into essentialist explanations of others..
Institutional violence against social groups
(racist attacks, labour attacks)
Politics of social inclusion & exclusion
Beyond binaries...
Politics of Exclusion
Can be economic, political or spatial
Cultural not individual
Context Exclusion process
includes opportunities for inclusion
Politics of Exclusion
Various registers of exclusion
Call for policies that address economic exclusion on one hand, and political and social exclusion on the other hand...
Social Exclusion “The profoundly precarious
position of most of those ‘included’ in late modern society in turn spawns anger, vindictiveness, and a taste for exclusion. From this precarious social perch, it can all too easily seem that the underclass unfairly lone on OUR taxes and commit predatory predatory crimescrimes against us...” (p. 62)
Social Exclusion
“Reconnaissance battles" fought out in specific territorial places , which are battles to define and redefine socio-political spaces.(Bauman 2002, & quoted on p53 of your text)
Multiple Registries of Rationality
Consumption CultureConsumption Culture
Recall Hayward: “Why do consumers act against their better judgement and engage in spending they later regret?”
Vocabulary of Motives Tandem relationship
between rationality & excitement
Identity & Insecurity
Aesthetic and affective
dimensions....
Culture of Narcissism (Lasch)
Over-socialization Alienation (tuning out)
‘Disnification’ of experience
Responses:• Shopping for selfself• Leisure activities Leisure activities (purged
from labour process of late modernity – ahistoricism)