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Evolutionary Thermodynamics and Theory of Social Quality as Links between Physics, Biology, and the Human Sciences

Jaap Westbroek, Harry Nijhuis, and Laurent van der Maesen

uncovering truth about reality in mathematical formulas. Because the ontology of physics is grounded on the reversibility of time, it is able to reproduce experimental research without the influence of events in time. All other sciences, however, are based on

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A Labial Art-Politics

Hollie MacKenzie and Iain MacKanzie

In this article we focus on the potential for an alignment of certain feminist artistic practices and poststructuralist conceptions of critique that may enable ways of theorizing practices of resistance and engender ways of practicing resistance in theory, without the lurch back into masculinist forms of dogmatism. It will be claimed that an ontological conception of art, considered as that which makes a difference in the world, can not only challenge the primacy of the dogmatic and masculine ‘subject who judges’, but also instill ways of thinking about, and ways of enacting, feminist artistic encounters with the capacity to resist dogmatism. The theoretical stakes of this claim are elaborated through complimentary readings of Deleuze and Guattari’s constructivist account of philosophy and Irigaray’s feminist explorations of what it means to think from within the 'labial', rather than from the position of the dominant phallic symbolic order. We argue that this creative conjunction between Irigaray, Deleuze, and Guattari provides the resources for a conceptualisation of both feminist artistic practice and the critical practice of poststructuralist philosophy as forms of resistance to the dominant patriarchal order, in ways that can avoid the collapse back into masculinist forms of dogmatism. Revel’s discussion of the role of constituent rather than constituted forms of resistance is employed to draw out the implications of this position for contentious politics. It is concluded that constituent practices of resistance can be understood as a challenge to the phallogocentric symbolic order to the extent that they are practices of a labial art-politics.

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Posthuman? Nature and Culture in Renegotiation

Kornelia Engert and Christiane Schürkmann

correct ontologies and epistemologies that follow an anthropocentric and/or humanistic tradition. In a certain way, they decenter the human from various angles: humans are embedded in hybrid relations of subjectivity ( Haraway 1991 ) or in materialist

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Adaptation Lived as a Story

Why We Should Be Careful about the Stories We Use to Tell Other Stories

Nicole Klenk

ontological perspective on different ways of knowing: Ontology’s better answer is that if these things ‘appear irrational’ it is because we have misunderstood them. If people say that a stone is a person, it is because they are talking about something

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People and Plants

Kay E. Lewis-Jones

plants are world-making, dynamic beings, and that their entangled interactions and “plant ontologies” ( Marder 2012: 30 ) have much to teach us about other ways of living as we seek alternative political and ethical engagements with the world and

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Editorial

Giovanni A. Travaglino

indigenous people requires learning from their ontologies and epistemologies and embracing their struggles, rather than merely “extracting” information for the benefit of one's career. Elisabet Dueholm Rasch next analyzes double contention in the context of

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Editorial

India. The reason is not only the difference of the affinity with a particular ground pattern of thought (conceptual framework) as the source of ontological and epistemological assumptions, which determine the nature of the epistemic world ( Bhaskar

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Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life

Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research

Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl

merge social ecology and practice theory theoretically, as they have heterogeneous ontologies and different theoretical and disciplinary affiliations. Rather, we combine their perspectives to investigate specific sustainability problems. Ecological

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Editorial: Actual politics and the need of conceptual clarity

Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

and the encompassing reciprocity of these dynamics. All four articles demonstrate that more clarity should emerge about the explicit and implicit assumptions that are at stake in the communication about their subjects. What is the ontological and

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Editorial

Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

(ET) implies an ontological physical concept that has the ability to theoretically connect physics and evolutionary sciences, like biology, and the human sciences. Similar to ET, it assumes that the SQA carries a corresponding ability to be a