Affectivity in Heidegger II: Temporality, Boredom, and Beyond

Beyond flow: temporality and participation in everyday activities.

Experience sampling examined how temporality, the lived experience of time, varied related to specific activity qualities and experiences in everyday life. Thirty-five students completed electronic surveys regarding their current activity and feelings and rated the activity's novelty and complexity, their depth of emotional and intellectual engagement, the direction and depth of attention, and ...

Beyond risk and boredom: reflections on Claudio Ciborra and sociology

Received: 10 August 2005 Revised: 21 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 From my perspective as a sociologist there are far too few artists in sociology today, those who combine an innovative vision with an exhilarating voice. With the loss of Claudio Ciborra that number has diminished. Readers of this journal may be somewhat surprised that I appreciate Ciborra largely as a sociological ...

Mentalized Affectivity

This article focuses on a particular kind of affect regulation, mentalized affectivity, which entails revaluing, not just modulating, affects. The author argues that affectivity challenges us to comprehend the impact of our representational world on affective experience and that this process plays a crucial role in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Three elements of affectivity are delineated and d...

Heidegger, Deconstruction and Responsibility: Some Critical Reflections on Nobuhiko Itani's Paper 'Beyond the Self'

Reading Brandom Reading Heidegger

While brilliance and originality surely top the list of qualities shared by Brandom and Heidegger, another commonality is a tendency to treat their predecessors as partial and sometimes confused versions of themselves. Heidegger, therefore, could hardly be indignant on principle if Brandom finds a fair bit of Making it Explicit in the first division of Being and Time. Nevertheless, some details...