Four new contributions by the GECo
Please find below the abstracts of the last four contributions (or 'grievances'/'doléances' in French) written by the GECo before the Diplomatic Writing Week, which took place July 2014 at the École des Mines in Paris: Without institutions, the modes of existence lose all consistency ; Pragmatique all the way down ; [PRE] is not a conception of the world, but an problematizing operator: the case of [REP] ; and If love did not exist…:
1/ Without institutions, the modes of existence lose all consistency
The situation with [REP], because of its limit status, is particularly interesting in regards to the general question of the relation between modes of existence and institutions. Dealing with beings without institutions courts a double danger; one of a generalisation that would be damaging to all collectives; the other of a bad ontology that would qualify beings absolutely and would relativise all the institutional modes.[...]
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2/ Pragmatic all the way down
The metaphysics invoked by the inquiry should be able to resist the temptation towards excessive generalization which would lead to a “general logic of worlds” that determines the position of other collectives a priori, as though “make room” meant “establish their places”. [...]
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3/ [PRE] is not a conception of the world, but an problematizing operator: the case of [REP]
A tendency to envisage [PRE] as a passage through different conceptions of the world might prevent us from sufficiently taking into account the instauration of institutions tied to different modes of existence , and could signify our failure to dramatize the risks proper to each mode. We concentrate on the case of [REP] since, in the book, the dramatization of risks proper to [REP] is avoided but problematic. [...]
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4/ If love did not exist…
The institution of [REL] confronts a serious problem that clarifies the link to the experience of love. [...]
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(Kindly translated by Michael Thomas, Timothy Howles and Stephen Muecke)