Measured Lives: Theoretical Psychology in an Era of Acceleration. ISTP, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Speedy technoscientific advances, rapid production and consumption of goods and signs blurred the... more Speedy technoscientific advances, rapid production and consumption of goods and signs blurred the distinction between real and virtual. Commodification of the postmodern subject’s desire for social differentiation, identity, freedom, well-being, etc. pave way to novel addictions of consumption and participation in the ever expanding neoliberal market as much as in postpolitics/postdemocracy. As these statements became quite ordinary, the critical intellectual concern for emancipation and sociopolitical change shifted its focus in our times towards truthiness and acceleration. Similarly, subversive energy is no longer sought in class struggle, but in agentic resistance to the new forms of discursive oppression or social control that regimes of posttruth employ. Psychological inquiry, on the other hand, continuously collude or cooperate with the amplified data-based objectivation process of the (post)human condition that is tangible, calculable and measurable, and hence is real and scientific. Whereas psy-practioners are preoccupied with either trendy relabeling of various coping strategies and self-management techniques, or with novel drugs influencing behaviour by affecting neural mechanisms, quickly putting them in use for the individuals. In this paper, I first depict the presenting problematic by briefly revisiting some crucial notions of Freud, Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, and Virilio that typically are read as pessimistic, catastrophic or nihilistic. Having reframed also the question of (inter)subjectivity from an engaged theoretical/philosophical psychological perspective, however, I critically reinterpret the primary interpretive task of psyche-ana-lysis. I then discuss some relevant tenets of my transformational (post)metaphysical thinking where conception of humanity can be articulated as nothing but an epiphenomenon of continuous/continual dialogues of the objective-subjective-projective realms that is irreducible.
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Obviously, this is not the place to discuss why/how commonsense or nonscientific knowledge, everyday social discourse, and cultural practices of the dialogicality of human experience that is acknowledged in all cultural and religious traditions, including ancient Asian, Egyptian, He- brew, Christianity and Islam, have been overlooked in Modern Western “secular” scientific thought and method. Nonetheless, dialogicality has been an absent presence in hegemonic scientific discourse including psychology (which excludes psychoanalysis). Thanks to various deconstructive (i.e., poststructuralist) confrontations coming from philosophy, arts, sciences and technology over the last few decades, as well as the rapidly changing global historical and political conditions (i.e., postmodernity, global terrorism) however, monological, universalist, foundationalist, representationalist and essentialist orientations of modernist knowledge-practices have been put under scrutiny. Rather recently, there have been increasing efforts which appear to compensate, so to speak, some of what has been neglected or omitted in most areas of human thought, scientific knowledge, and social praxis. It is in this international historical, political and intellectual climate that the notion of dialogue has received wider recognition as a highly relevant and inspirational resource.