Research Catalog

Title

Affected : on becoming undone and potentiation / Rick Iedema.

Author

Iedema, Rick

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Description

xii, 131 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"In this book, Rick Iedema shows with profound analytical precision the existential strength of 'being moved' and being affected. Departing from a life being shattered, the books exposes with the help of Spinoza, Sloterdijk, and others, the many dimensions of 'becoming'. Written during the COVID-19 crisis and extreme bushfires a short distance away, the book is a plea for new 'structures of feeling' and for a new way of doing social science research. The book's argument is that today's complexity and pace of change are too intense to be adequately represented purely by distanced and objectifying analysis. His discussion at the end of the book about potentiation and anthropotechnics shows us the way towards personal and intellectual courage: one that allows uncertainty and nurtures emergent kinds of sense, knowledge and intelligence." - Jessica Mesman, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands This book's main message is to advocate for a collaborative, affective, visualised and future-oriented research agenda. The book finds its inspiration in "the chasm [that separates] philosophising about being shattered and thinking that is shattered" (Heidegger 1946, Letter on Humanism). To explore this chasm, the book journeys through a range of psychological and posthuman perspectives on affect and becoming. The aim of this journey is to reconcile shattered thinking-feeling with Spinoza's ethics according to which 'our capacity to be affected determines our capacity to act'. The book elaborates this capacity to become in terms of our uniquely human propensity to experiment with counter-intuitive inversions: in this case, to call to account that which is affected, rather than that which affects. The book will appeal to students and academics working in the fields of alternative research methods, the social sciences, and organisation studies. Rick Iedema is Professor and Director of the Centre for Team-based Practice and Learning in Health Care at King's College London, UK. His main research interests include interprofessional collaboration and communication and service users' involvement in practice development. He has pioneered innovative organisational and healthcare communication research methodologies, including video-reflexive ethnography.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

Palgrave pivot.

Subject

• Affect (Psychology)
• Change
• Becoming (Philosophy)
• Complexity (Philosophy)
• Social sciences > Research > Methodology
• Organizational change
• Health services administration
• Management
• Organization
• Planning
• Sociology > Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Intro -- Preamble-Affected: On Becoming (Undone) -- Origin of This Book -- A Note on Method -- References -- Contents -- 1. Transgressions -- Descent into Greed -- Child Sexual Abuse -- Digital Surveillance -- Academic Misconduct -- Research Integrity -- Clinical Incidents -- Loss of World -- The Monstrous -- References -- 2. Affects -- Affect as Practice -- Vitalism-Active/Passive -- Sense Modulates (or Exceeds) Meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Undoings -- Undoing -- Loss of Meaning -- Effacing Self -- Passivity -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Prosociality -- 5. Potentiation.

Call Number

JFD 21-2373

ISBN

• 3030627357
• 9783030627355

OCLC

1198720010

Author

Iedema, Rick, author.

Title

Affected : on becoming undone and potentiation / Rick Iedema.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave pivot.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Iedema, Rick. Affected. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021] 9783030627362 (OCoLC)1225069108

Research Call Number

JFD 21-2373