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Este texto é um exercício heurístico em torno dos múltiplos agenciamentos da experiência literária, através da discussão sobre a excepcionalidade estética e a posição do sujeito na experiência artística. Começamos por discutir como a noção de sujeito orientou as abordagens estéticas, tornando a arte uma espécie de fatiche que coaduna com a metafísica ocidental que supostamente serve de referência estável para o pensamento sobre o mundo. Depois, redefinindo o papel do sujeito na experiência estética, avançamos no sentido de entender a obra de arte e a obra literária como objetos que especulam e experimentam sobre o plano da imanência. Assim, a excepcionalidade estética reside não na sua posição intermediária frente ao mundo “real”, mas sim na sua posição absolutamente originária em relação ao infinito agenciamento de mundos (cosmovisões). Finalmente, o artigo termina com elucubrações acerca dos agenciamentos no plano da imanência e em como a literatura se liga a esse tipo de experiência. This text is a heuristic account of the many arrangements (or agencements) of the literary experience through the debate over the aesthetic exceptionality and the position of the subject in artistic experience. It starts by discussing how the concept of subject guided the different aesthetic approaches in literary and aesthetic theory, turning art into some sort of fatiche which incorporates itself into the Western metaphysics that allegedly works as a static reference for the thinking of the world in which we live in. Then, after redefining the role of the subject in the aesthetic experience, the paper tries to present works of art as objects that speculate and experiment with the immanence. Thus, the exceptionality of the aesthetics lies in its completely original position regarding the potentially infinite ways of making words (cosmovisions) by means of literary agencements. Finally, the article ends with a reflection on the arrangements or agencements within immanence itself, shedding light on how literature connects itself with this kind of experience.

This paper develops the "dialogue" topic in service-dominant logic of marketing (SDL). While we stand on the fundamental premise (FP) 8 that "a service-centered view is customer oriented and relational," we assume "relational" contains the collective, which cannot be reduced to individuals' interactions. Consequently, the problem of Ballantyne and Varey (2006a; 2006b) that at the start and end of the dialogical process there is no room for the collective is evident. To solve this problem, we use theoretical and empirical methods. Theoretically, we incorporate "agencement," elaborated under the actor-network theory, into the topic of dialogue in SDL. Empirically, we identify the relationship between the collective and individual based on the case study of a dialogical product planning project. We confirm the decisive role of the collective, agencement, in the relationship building and the evaluation of co-created value in the dialogical process. While the scope is limited to the ideal interaction--dialogical value cocreation--the results throw doubt on FPs 10 and 11 of SDL.

Plus que jamais, à l’ère de la circulation dématérialisée des images, la création photographique se situe dans l’après de la prise de vue. Si certains photographes, comme Joachim Schmid, Batia Suter ou Penelope Umbrico ne ressentent plus le besoin de réaliser eux-mêmes leurs images, d’autres, comme Wolfgang Tillmans ou Vincent Delbrouck utilisent leurs propres photographies comme une base de données, une archive. L’acte de création est déplacé dans la sélection et dans la mise en relation d’images pré-existantes issues de sources hétérogènes et exposées selon divers dispositifs − dont la constellation. In an era of dematerialized circulation of images, photographic creation is increasingly taking place after the shooting. If some photographers like Joachim Schmid, Batia Suter or Penelope Umbrico no longer feel the need to produce their own images, others like Wolfgang Tillmans or Vincent Delbrouck use their own photographs as a database, an archive. The act of creation is displaced in the selection and the linking of pre-existing images from heterogeneous sources and exposed according to various structures – including constellation.

This paper reports the findings of a qualitative narrative-inquiry study aimed at exploring what English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student-teachers' life stories revealed about their identity construction as future teachers. The project was carried out with eighth-semester student-teachers from a public university in Tunja, Boyacá (Colombia). Hence, the data collection drew upon written life stories and in-depth interviews. The findings suggest that critical factors helped student-teachers construct their identities as future EFL teachers. These factors are all tied to the student-teachers' previous experiences as language learners themselves, a connection and affiliation they established with their teacher-educators as projected images they have of themselves as future teachers. Moreover, real teaching experiences were opportunities for student-teachers to make sense of the myriad of issues in education, which made them develop positions towards education as future teachers. Resumen Este artículo presenta los hallazgos de un estudio narrativo cualitativo que tuvo como objetivo explorar lo que las historias de vida de los profesores en formación de Inglés como Lengua Extranjera (EFL) pudieran revelar acerca de su construcción de identidades como futuros maestros. Este estudio se llevó a cabo entre estudiantes de octavo semestre de la Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. Por tanto, la recopilación de datos se basó en historias de vida escritas y entrevistas en profundidad. Los hallazgos sugieren que hay algunos factores críticos que ayudaron a los profesores en formación a construir sus identidades como futuros profesores de Inglés como Lengua Extranjera. Estos factores están ligados a las experiencias previas que los profesores en formación vivieron como aprendices de idiomas, y la conexión y afiliación que establecen con sus educadores como imágenes proyectadas que ellos tienen de sí mismos como futuros profesores. Además, las experiencias reales de enseñanza fueron oportunidades para que los profesores en formación construyeran sentido de los innumerables asuntos que fluctuaban en la educación, lo que los hizo desarrollar posturas hacia la educación como futuros maestros. Résumé Cet article est le résultat d'une étude narrative qualitative qui visait à explorer ce que les histoires de vie des professeurs d'anglais langue étrangère en formation pourraient révéler sur leur construction d'identité en tant que futurs enseignants. Cette étude a été menée auprès d'étudiants du huitième semestre de l'Université pédagogique et technologique de Colombie. Par conséquent, le recensement de données eut comme point de départ des histoires de vie écrites et des entretiens approfondis. Les résultats suggèrent que certains facteurs critiques ont aidé les enseignants en formation à construire leur identité en tant que futurs professeurs d'anglais langue étrangère. Ces facteurs sont liés aux expériences antérieures des enseignants en formation professionnelle en tant qu'apprenants en langues, et au lien et à l'affiliation qu'ils établissent avec leurs enseignants en tant qu'images projetées qu'ils ont d'eux-mêmes comme futurs enseignants. En outre, les expériences d'enseignement réelles ont été l'occasion pour les stagiaires-enseignants de comprendre la quantité de questions fluctuantes dans le domaine de l'éducation, ce qui leur a fait développer des attitudes à l'égard de l'éducation en qualité de futurs enseignants. Resumo Este artigo apresenta os resultados de um estudo narrativo qualitativo que teve como objetivo explorar o que as histórias de vida de professores de Inglês como Língua Estrangeira (EFL) em formação poderiam revelar sobre sua construção de identidades como futuros professores. Este estudo foi realizado com alunos do oitavo semestre da Universidade Pedagógica e Tecnológica da Colômbia. Portanto, a coleta de dados baseou-se em histórias de vida escritas e entrevistas em profundidade. Os resultados sugerem que existem alguns fatores críticos que ajudaram os professores em formação a construir suas identidades como futuros professores de Inglês como Língua Estrangeira. Esses fatores estão ligados às experiências anteriores que os professores em formação tiveram como alunos de línguas e à conexão e afiliação que estabelecem com seus educadores como imagens projetadas que eles têm de si mesmos como futuros professores. Além disso, as experiências reais de ensino foram oportunidades para os professores de formação inicial darem sentido às inúmeras questões flutuantes na educação, o que os fez desenvolver atitudes em relação à educação como futuros professores.

Dans les Milles et Une Nuits, Shéhérazade enchaine infiniment des contes dont l'inachèvement et l'incomplétude ouvre sur les suivants. Un vide annonce un futur manquant, imminent. Il le rend même urgent. Une fois révélé, dévoilé, ce futur progressivement présent génère ses propres incomplétudes, jusqu'à la plus fatale. Le processus est anonyme, sans centre, et sans véritable linéarité, avec des personnages-miroirs spéculant les uns avec les autres. Prenant ce mouvement à la lettre et à l'image, je propose de conceptualiser notre management digital comme un ensemble d'apocalypses managériales. Loin de toute logique de métaphore, j'explore ce processus réel en compagnie de Benjamin et de Deleuze.

We conduct a comprehensive review of embeddedness in entrepreneurship research. Although the term “embeddedness” is frequently used in this field of study, less is known about the ways in which it is operationalized and applied. Using criterion sampling, we analyse 198 articles in order to investigate how embeddedness is conceptualized and what role it plays in the extant entrepreneurship literature. We categorize our findings based on different phases of the entrepreneurial process (early, mature and exit) and outline the dominant focus and the main conceptualization of embeddedness for each phase. We highlight important learnings for each of the three phases and identify potential areas for conceptual development. Across the phases, we find that embeddedness and context are often used interchangeably. We thus call for construct clarity in the field. In the existing literature, entrepreneurs are generally portrayed as reactive to embeddedness, resulting in a loss of entrepreneurial agency. To remedy this, we introduce the term agencement, which takes into account the relationship between the entrepreneurship and embeddedness. Further, entrepreneurs are found to be embedded in multiple contexts at the same time, and embeddedness can be understood at different levels and to different degrees. To address this complexity, it is relevant to focus on the embedding process itself, acknowledging that it takes place in social interactions including cultural, cognitive, and emotional aspects between contexts and across levels. While the extant literature supports the notion that embeddedness is important for understanding entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs, it does not necessarily support our understanding of how embeddedness takes form or why it takes certain forms. We therefore include a call for future research to turn to process and practice theories.

The emerging field of responsible management (RM) studies the integration of sustainability, responsibility, and ethics in managerial practices. Therefore, turning to practice theories for the study of RM appears to hold great promise of conceptual and methodological contribution. We propose a posthumanist practice approach for studying RM-as-practice. Managerial practices are conceived as the agencement of heterogeneous elements (humans, nonhumans, more-than-humans, materials, and discourses) that achieve agency in their being interconnected. Thus, RM is understood as processual, relational, emergent, and sociomaterial. We contribute a framework for the empirical study of RM-as-practice on the basis of three sensitizing concepts: situatedness, sociomateriality, and textures. We further discuss the implications of understanding responsibility as response-ability, an engaged practice for relating to the other and the RM researcher’s role as internal to the practice agencement under study, thus, opening the debate on our own response-ability.

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Les différentes missions du pharmacien d’officine conditionnent sa pratique mais aussi l’agencement de son local officinal. Cet agencement extérieur et intérieur est régi par les codes de la santé publique, de déontologie, de la construction, de l’urbanisme et par la loi Française. La digitalisation, de plus en plus présente dans les officines, permet de dynamiser la pharmacie et la fait évoluer avec son temps. De nombreux outils tels que les robots et automates de délivrance et de préparation des doses à administrer, les linéaires digitaux, permettent d’aider le pharmacien au quotidien. Dans cette thèse nous détaillerons le projet de réagencement de la pharmacie du Trinquet à Soorts-Hossegor (40150). Ce projet et son cahier des charges permettront de mettre en pratique et comprendre les enjeux de l’agencement du local officinal

L’objectif de cet article est de saisir les « practices of seeing » s’accomplissant au sein d’une organisation et de suivre la constitution progressive d’une manière de voir organisationnelle soutenant la production de connaissances. Notre étude contribue à l’analyse de « practices of seeing » dans leur dimension située, incarnée et matérialisée. Pour ce faire, nous présenterons une étude ethnographique qui a eu lieu dans une compagnie d’arpentage, au cours de laquelle nous avons observé et filmé les activités quotidiennes de professionnels (techniciens d’arpentage, géomètre, dessinateurs). Nous montrons que le travail d’arpentage repose sur la capacité des acteurs organisationnels à « voir » et « faire voir » des indices pertinents afin de pouvoir produire des connaissances relatives à l’espace sur lequel ils enquêtent. Pour conclure, nous discuterons le fait que les acteurs organisationnels sont engagés dans un travail de fabrication de « prises visuelles » qui leur permet de construire une manière de voir partagée et de produire un jugement sur un terrain donné. The aim of this paper is to understand the “practices of seeing” that take place within an organization and to follow the progressive constitution of an organizational “way of seeing” that supports the production of knowledge. Our study contributes to the analysis of practices of seeing in their situated, embodied and materialized dimensions. We conducted an organizational ethnography in a firm of land surveyors and the video recording of the daily activities was privileged. We analyzed how organizational members progressively and jointly build expertise about a property, and, in particular, how specific “practices of seeing” are constituted through the daily work activities. We show that surveying work rests upon the abilities of the organizational actors “seeing” and “making visible” relevant clues in order to support the constitution of an organizational “way of seeing” through the embodied practices of the actors. El objetivo de este artículo es dar cuenta de las «practicas of seeing» que se producen en el seno de una organización y de hacer el seguimiento de la construcción progresiva de una manera de ver organizacional que apoya la producción de conocimientos. Nuestro estudio contribuye al análisis de las «practices of seeing» en su dimensión localizada, encarnada y materializada. En este sentido, presentamos un estudio etnográfico que se realizó en una empresa de peritaje en la cual observamos y filmamos las actividades cotidianas de los profesionales que laboran en la misma (técnicos de peritaje, geómetras y dibujantes). El estudio muestra que el trabajo de peritaje se basa en la capacidad de los actores organizacionales de «ver» y de «hacer ver» los índices pertinentes que sirven a la constitución de una manera organizacional de ver.

In today’s trading of liquid financial instruments, there are two main contending agencements (in Callon’s ‘actor-network’ sense of combinations of humans and nonhuman elements that manifest distributed agency): one agencement yokes together automated high-frequency trading (HFT) and open, anonymous electronic order books; the other is organized above all around the distinction between ‘dealers’ and ‘clients’. Drawing upon interviews with 321 market participants, we examine differences in the relative presence of the two agencements. We focus in this article on the processes that have given rise to especially sharp differences between the trading of shares and of sovereign bonds, and between the trading of the latter in the US and Europe. The article contributes to two literatures: the sociological literature on trading (especially on HFT), which we argue needs expanded to encompass what can be called ‘the politics of market structure’; and the nascent political-economy literature on the processes shaping how sovereign bonds are traded. In terms of underlying theory, we advocate far greater attention in actor-network economic sociology to the state and its agencies and a stronger focus in political economy on materiality. Introduction Cases and data sources An agencement triumphant: The transformation of US and European share trading A partial colonization: The trading of US Treasurys An agencement blocked: sovereign bonds in Europe Conclusion References

Cet article pose la question de savoir si, au cours des dix dernieres annees, les etudes empiriques des pratiques cognitives auraient perdu tant leur elan que l’energie necessaire pour poursuivre le travail de redefinition du statut des connaissances dans les societes contemporaines et dans les etudes organisationnelles. Il illustre comment le mouvement intellectuel, qui a ete engage avec les etudes empiriques de la connaissance comme pratique situee, a ete aussi un mouvement pour penser le decentrement du sujet humain. L’epistemologie post-humaniste des pratiques considere celles-ci comme des agencements heterogenes d’elements (des savoirs, des techniques et des activites) qui, de par leurs connexions et leur devenir, enactent une certaine agenceite. De la sorte, les etudes situees des pratiques n’ont pas perdu de leur force. Elles redefinissent l’objet de la connaissance en passant d’une focale sur la cognition distribuee (au sein de pratiques singulieres ou au sein d’activites specifiques a une certaine pratique), a une agenceite distribuee au sein d’une texture de pratiques. La focale est alors placee sur les modes d’existence et le devenir des agencements ainsi que sur le pouvoir qui indexe des regimes de visibilite et d’invisibilite. Les publications de la RAC mettent en evidence la maniere dont l’objet de recherche a change durant les dix dernieres annees et, comment cela a, dans le meme temps, permis d’ouvrir des pistes pour des recherches futures.

Using contemporary and historical sources about one medium-sized provincial city in England, this short paper examines the distinctive features of gay life outside major metropolitan cities. This provocation engages with the question of violence and discrimination against LGBT people in small and medium sized European cities. However, it focuses more on thinking about everyday life in such cities. Conceptually, the paper attempts to provincialize certain key theoretical assumptions about contemporary sexual politics. Empirically, this short paper draws on literary and archival sources about gay life in Leicester (and the broader English East Midlands region) in the late 20th century, along with ethnographic observations conducted in the city over the last decade. In thinking about these issues through a diverse range of empirical material, this paper engages with Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray’s call for geographers to utilize assemblage thinking to help theorize how contemporary sexual lives and sexual politics are shaped by the coming together of recent socio-legal changes and various new socio-technical arrangements. Sur le fondement de sources contemporaines et historiques relatives à une ville anglaise provinciale de taille moyenne, cet article examine les traits distinctifs de la vie gay en dehors des grandes villes métropolitaines. L’article concerne la question de la violence et de la discrimination à l’encontre des personnes LGBT dans les villes européennes petites et moyennes et s’intéresse plus particulièrement à la vie quotidienne dans ces villes. D’un point de vue conceptuel, l’article tente de « provincialiser » certaines hypothèses théoriques clés sur la politique sexuelle contemporaine. D’un point de vue empirique, l’article s’appuie sur des sources littéraires et d’archives sur la vie gay à Leicester (et dans la région anglaise de l’East Midlands) à la fin du XXe siècle, ainsi que sur des observations ethnographiques menées dans la ville au cours de la dernière décennie. S’appuyant sur une variété de matériaux empiriques, cette réflexion englobe l’appel de Catherine J. Nash et Andrew Gorman-Murray. Ces derniers invitent les géographes à utiliser le concept d’agencement (assemblage thinking) pour mieux comprendre la configuration des pratiques sexuelles et des identités contemporaines, façonnées par les récents changements sociopolitiques et les nouvelles avancées technologiques.

Marcher dans la ville implique le plus souvent la mobilisation de différents équipements personnels, de sacs et d’accessoires qui assurent autonomie et confort à leurs usagers. Étudier la marche en milieu urbain exige donc de prendre en considération la dimension matérielle de la mobilité pédestre, cette relation qui lie entre eux un environnement, des objets et des hommes. Il est en effet primordial de considérer que ces agencements mobiles – nés de l’association entre un piéton et les multiples entités qu’il transporte – sont la résultante d’arbitrages porteurs de sens sur les façons d’être et de se déplacer au sein de l’espace public. Interroger la composition et l’activité de pareils agencements revient à mettre au jour différents modes de régulation des comportements urbains, différentes routines d’action préférentielles.Dans cette contribution, nous portons notre attention sur l’équipement piéton, son usage en mobilité et son affectation à des tâches consuméristes. Nous mobilisons pour ce faire les enseignements tirés de deux formes de recherche que nous pensons complémentaires : une recherche scientifique dont le but est d’identifier et de comprendre les pratiques de déplacement urbain (enquête sociologique) associée à une recherche conceptuelle et formelle menée par un collectif d’élèves designers chargés d’imaginer l’équipement piéton de demain. Ces recherches conjuguées donnent matière à penser l’équipement piéton sous un nouveau jour. Elles permettent d’entamer une réflexion autour de trois grands axes : l’autonomie du piéton équipé, la coordination entre passants, l’intermodularité des modes de transport doux. Walking around the city often implies the mobilisation of various personal equipments, of bags and accessories providing autonomy and comfort to their users. Thus, studying urban walking requires to take into account the material dimension of pedestrian mobility and to pay a specific attention to the relationship between a given environment, objects and human beings. Indeed, it is important to consider that mobile agencies – born from the association of a pedestrian and the different items he or she carries – result from meaningful arbitrations made about the way(s) of being and moving within a public space. Focusing on such agencements’ composition leads us to spread some light on social constraints, collective routines, personal preferences that really matter when it comes to travel through the city.In this article, we bring our attention to pedestrian equipments and to their mobile use during shopping trips. To do so, we bring together two types of research: a scientific research dedicated to the understanding of current mobility practices (sociological survey) and a conceptual and formal research conducted by students of a design school who have been instructed to develop the pedestrian equipment of tomorrow. These combined researches allow us to engage a reflection along three lines: the autonomy of equipped pedestrian, the coordination between passerby, the modularity of “soft” modes of transport.

A social perspective on knowledge does not exist independently of social relations and social practices. This chapter illustrates the travel of ideas around knowledge management within a social perspective through three processual activities: sharing knowledge and keeping knowledge alive within a community’s practices; embedding knowledge in material practices; and innovating as an ongoing process. Thus, we argue that a social perspective on knowing is based on three types of relations established between practices and knowledge: a relation of containment (knowledge is a process that takes place within situated practices); a relation of mutual constitution (knowing and practising produce each other); a relation of equivalence (the equivalence between knowing and practising arises when priority is denied to the knowledge that exists before the moment of its enactment). A social perspective on knowledge management has taken several turns from the concept of the community of practice to the development of practice-based studies.

In this article we investigate the role of technology and meaning in the institutional work of newsmakers. By analysing ethnographic data from an Italian business newspaper undertaking a project integrating the print and online newsrooms, we show how technology makes certain actions possible – and even proposes action – for the journalists, in their enactment of the institution of business news. Drawing on Callon’s notion of agencement and Battilana and D’Aunno’s conceptualization of human agency in institutional work, our analysis shows that action is taken in the interaction between humans and non-humans, and changes in technology might trigger institutional work. The institutional work of journalists is performed by means of both old and new technologies; if new technologies trigger institutional work by proposing new actions that need to be made meaningful by the journalists, old technology functions as a ‘law book’, where the institution of business news is inscribed. The journalists then use this ‘law book’ to interpret the new actions.

On essaie de répondre à la question suivante : comment se fait-il qu’un grand mythe a pour origine un roman aussi mal écrit ? La lecture d’une page de Dracula montre que le roman est effectivement mal écrit. Mais une analyse du même texte à la lumière des concepts de Gilles Deleuze –devenir, métamorphose, événement, déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation montre que le comte Dracula est une tique deleuzienne hyperactive et qu’il incarne la subversion de l’espace strié et des valeurs établies. The essay seeks to answer the following question: how can a great myth, the myth of Dracula the vampire have been born in such an ill-written text. A close reading of a page from Dracula will show that the novel is indeed badly written. But an analysis of the same text in the light of the Deleuzian concepts of becoming, of metamorphosis, of event, of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation will show that Count Dracula is a hyperactive Deleuzian tick and that he embodies the subversion of the striated space of respectable society.

Strategy is a problematic yet often-invoked concept. This thesis explores the 2015 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS), philosophy, and social theory to develop an alternative framework for the formulation of strategy in the security domain. The 2015 NSS is analyzed for consistency in its concepts and categories. A model of strategic agency is proposed as an alternative framework for developing security strategy. The strategic agency model draws upon actor-network theory and utilizes a novel approach whereby ontology is conceived as a network of power relations. Strategic agency provides a mechanism whereby a perceiving self-observer (Strategos, the strategic agent) may identify, describe, and explain the behavior of other actors in the strategic environment. This thesis relates how the perspective of Strategos moves along a continuum of ontology and epistemology in framing its world, with implications for accurate modeling of social systems. A model for analytical use in strategy development is presented along with insights into how such a model might be employed for analytical, planning, and operational purposes. http://archive.org/details/anontologyofpowe1094551697 Director, Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency, Jacksonville, AL Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.