Andreas Reckwitz - Society of Singularities

1 Title page The Society of Singularities Andreas Reckwitz Translated by Valentine A. Pakis polity

2 Copyright page

3 Acknowledgments

4 Introduction: The Proliferation of the Particular Notes

5 I Modernity Between the Social Logic of the General and the Social Logic of the Particular

6 1 The Social Logic of the GeneralModernity and Generality Typifications and Rationalizations Standardization, Formalization, Generalization Objects, Subjects, Spaces, Times, and Collectives in the Social Logic of the General Industrial Modernity as a Prototype Notes

7 2 The Social Logic of the Particular The General-Particular, Idiosyncrasies, Singularities Objects, Subjects, Spaces, Times, and Collectives in the Social Logic of Singularities Practices of Singularization I: Observation and Evaluation Practices of Singularization II: Production and Appropriation Performativity as a Mode of Praxis and Automated Singularization Notes

8 3 Culture and Culturalization Culture as a Sphere of Valorization and De-Valorization Culturalization versus Rationalization Qualities of Cultural Praxis: Between Sense and Sensibility Notes

9 4 The Transformation of the Cultural Sphere Premodern Societies: The Fixation and Repetition of the Singular Bourgeois Modernity: The Romantic Revolution of the Unique Organized Modernity: Mass Culture Late Modernity: Competitive Singularities, Hyperculture, and Polarization Notes

10 II The Post-Industrial Economy of SingularitiesBeyond Industrial Society Unleashing the Creative Economy Notes

11 1 Unique Goods in Cultural CapitalismThe Culturalization of Goods Singular Goods: Originality and Rarity Things as Singular Goods Services, Media Formats, and Events as Singular Goods Features of Singular Goods I: The Performance of Authenticity Features of Singular Goods II: Moment and Duration Features of Singular Goods III: Circulation and Hyperculture Notes

12 2 Cultural Singularity MarketsAttractiveness Markets as Markets of Attention and Valorization The Cultural Economization of the Economy and Society Overproduction and Winner-Take-All Competitions Buzz Effects and the Struggle for Visibility Valorization Techniques and Reputation Singularity Capital Quantifying the Unique Notes

13 III The Singularization of the Working WorldThe Cultural Economization of Labor and Its Polarization Notes

14 1 Practices of Labor and Organization in the Creative EconomyCultural Production as Creative Labor Projects as Heterogeneous Collaborations Organizational Cultures and Networks Notes

15 2 The Singularization and Self-Singularization of Working SubjectsBeyond the Formalization of Labor The Profile Subject: Competencies and Talents Labor as Performance The Singularization Techniques of Labor Fields of Tension in Highly Qualified Labor: Between the Artist’s Dilemma and the Superstar Economy Notes

16 IV Digitalization as Singularization: The Rise of the Culture MachineFrom Industrial Technics to Digital Technology Notes

17 1 The Technology of CulturalizationAlgorithms, Digitality, and the Internet as Infrastructures The Digital Culture Machine and the Ubiquity of Culture Culture Between Overproduction and Recombination Notes

18 2 Cultural and Automated Processes of Singularization The Digital Subject: Performative Authenticity and Visibility Compositional Singularity and the Form of the Profile Big Data and the Observation of Profiles The Personalized Internet and Softwarization Digital Neo-Communities and the Sociality of the Internet Fields of Tension in Online Culture: From the Pressure to Create Profiles to Extreme Affect Culture Notes

19 V The Singularistic Life: Lifestyles, Classes, Subject FormsThe Late-Modern Self Beyond the Leveled Middle-Class Society The Cultural Class Divide and the “Paternoster-Elevator Effect” Notes

20 1 The Lifestyle of the New Middle Class: Successful Self-Actualization Romanticism and Bourgeois Culture: The New Symbiosis Self-Actualization and the Valorization of Everyday Life The Curated Life Culture as a Resource and Cultural Cosmopolitanism Status Investment and the Prestige of the Unique Notes

21 2 Elements of the Singularistic Lifestyle Food Homes Travel Bodies Parenting and Early Education Work–Life Balance, Urbanity, Juvenilization, Degendering, and New Liberalism Fields of Tension in the Lifestyle of the New Middle Class: The Inadequacy of Self-Actualization Notes

22 3 The Culturalization of InequalityThe Underclass’s Way of Life: Muddling Through Cultural Devaluations Singularistic Counter-Strategies of the Underclass The Tableau of Late-Modern Classes and Their Relations Notes

23 VI Differential Liberalism and Cultural Essentialism: The Transformation of the PoliticalThe Politics of the Particular Note

24 1 Apertistic–Differential Liberalism and the Politics of the LocalFrom the Social-Democratic Consensus to New Liberalism The Competition State and Diversity: The Two Sides of New Liberalism The Politics of Cities I: New Urbanism and the Global Attractiveness Competition The Politics of Cities II: Culturally Oriented Governmentality and Singularity Management Notes

25 2 The Rise of Cultural EssentialismCollective Identities and Particular Neo-Communities Ethnic Communities Between Self-Culturalization and External Culturalization Cultural Nationalism Religious Fundamentalism Right-Wing Populism Cultural Conflicts Between Essentialism, Hyperculture, and Liberalism The Politics of Violence: Terrorism and Mass Shootings as Celebrations of the Singular Act Notes

26 Conclusion: The Crisis of the General?

27 Notes

28 Bibliography

29 Index

30 End User License Agreement

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