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From epistemology to the avant-grade: Marcel Duchamp and the sociology of knowledge in resonance

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The argument that sociology of knowledge is described as a critical subfield of sociology and that the artist Marcel Duchamp is engaged in epistemologically analogous projects is presented. The analogy implies new ways of thinking about the institutional role of sociology of knowledge, the practice and epistemology of sociology, and the epistemic character of modernism.

Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology, Knowledge, Sociology of, Sociology of knowledge

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Rethinking subpolitics: beyond the 'Iron cage' of modern politics?

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The term 'subpolitics' refers to forms of politics outside and beyond the representative institutions of the politics.The proliferation of subpolitics indicates the erosion of the 'iron cage' of bureaucratic and state -oriented politics.

World politics

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Reflexivity as non-linearity

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The effort to re-think the notion of reflexivity in terms of non-linearity is undertaken. Reflexivity is modernity understood in terms of communications as social norms, it features non-linear socio-technical systems.

Cultural movements

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