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Letting Vision Lie Fallow: Understanding the Dialectical Constitution of the Epistemic Regime of Global Crisis in Late Modernity – Anxiety and Struggle in Capitalist Relations of Structural and Productive Power

Sert, Mervan LU (2021) STVM25 20211
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Throughout the ongoing pandemic, the operational integrity of the political system of the world has seemingly been on the cusp of collapse, raising questions about the institutional and normative vitality of this system. Moreover, this global moment draws attention to the epistemological conditions that shape global policy frameworks often consulted to devise agendas that address challenges of global magnitude. This thesis aims at understanding the epistemic regime of global crisis dialectically as a way of discerning the systemic specifications of globality in late modernity in terms of structural and productive power. Critical discourse analysis is applied to UN Human Development Reports from 1990 to 2020 to reach insight about the... (More)
Throughout the ongoing pandemic, the operational integrity of the political system of the world has seemingly been on the cusp of collapse, raising questions about the institutional and normative vitality of this system. Moreover, this global moment draws attention to the epistemological conditions that shape global policy frameworks often consulted to devise agendas that address challenges of global magnitude. This thesis aims at understanding the epistemic regime of global crisis dialectically as a way of discerning the systemic specifications of globality in late modernity in terms of structural and productive power. Critical discourse analysis is applied to UN Human Development Reports from 1990 to 2020 to reach insight about the non-discursive and discursive social mediation of capital and the adhering ideological validity it necessitates. The study finds that the epistemic regime of global crisis is based in using the narrative functionality of differentiable subjects and a spectacle of equality to perpetuate the primacy of socially constituted meaning embodied in expressions of late modern symptoms, all of which are rooted in the hegemony of unfettered transnational capital. It finds that profound systemic transformation is only possible through embracing modern anxiety as freedom thereby proactively creating new imaginaries of political community. (Less)
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author
Sert, Mervan LU
supervisor
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course
STVM25 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
capitalism, epistemology, global crisis, productive power, structural power
language
English
id
9044607
date added to LUP
2021-07-06 11:04:43
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2021-07-06 11:04:43
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  abstract     = {{Throughout the ongoing pandemic, the operational integrity of the political system of the world has seemingly been on the cusp of collapse, raising questions about the institutional and normative vitality of this system. Moreover, this global moment draws attention to the epistemological conditions that shape global policy frameworks often consulted to devise agendas that address challenges of global magnitude. This thesis aims at understanding the epistemic regime of global crisis dialectically as a way of discerning the systemic specifications of globality in late modernity in terms of structural and productive power. Critical discourse analysis is applied to UN Human Development Reports from 1990 to 2020 to reach insight about the non-discursive and discursive social mediation of capital and the adhering ideological validity it necessitates. The study finds that the epistemic regime of global crisis is based in using the narrative functionality of differentiable subjects and a spectacle of equality to perpetuate the primacy of socially constituted meaning embodied in expressions of late modern symptoms, all of which are rooted in the hegemony of unfettered transnational capital. It finds that profound systemic transformation is only possible through embracing modern anxiety as freedom thereby proactively creating new imaginaries of political community.}},
  author       = {{Sert, Mervan}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Letting Vision Lie Fallow: Understanding the Dialectical Constitution of the Epistemic Regime of Global Crisis in Late Modernity – Anxiety and Struggle in Capitalist Relations of Structural and Productive Power}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}