Category Archives: multiplicities

The social life of measures

By admin | Published: February 11, 2017

Now published in Theory, Culture & Society Abstract Issues of measure and measurement, and their relation to value and values, are of concern in several major threads in contemporary social theory and social research. In this paper, the notion of ‘measure-value environments’ is introduced as a theoretical lens through which the life of measures can […]

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La massa nella teoria sociologica classica e contemporanea / Crowds in classical and contemporary sociological theory

By admin | Published: December 15, 2016

An essay from 2008, now freely available here – http://qds.revues.org/892  

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Morphogenesis and Animistic Moments (with Mattias Kärrholm)

By admin | Published: August 19, 2016

On formative processes and territorial production   Abstract. This piece explores the issues of morphogenesis and metamorphosis in socio-spatial formations and social assemblages. The specific key provided here to apprehend the issue of ‘form’ is what we propose to call the ‘animistic moment’ in form-taking processes. We believe that a conceptualisation of animistic moments might […]

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The Reactive: Social Experiences of Surfaces and Depths

By admin | Published: September 11, 2015

A speech I gave in Copenhagen @ Christian Borch’s Imitation conference. Recording available here.

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Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: Rethinking the Social Conference at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 28–29 May 2015

By admin | Published: May 8, 2015

+ info | http://info.cbs.dk/crowds/conference_imitation_contagion_suggestion_rethinking_the_social

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lo Squaderno no. 33 | Crowded Spaces

By admin | Published: September 12, 2014

co-edited with Christian Borch

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Discount flyers for “Visibility” and “The Ambiguous Multiplicities”

By admin | Published: July 3, 2014

Discount flyer for Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research Discount flyer The Ambiguous Multiplicities

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The Ambiguous Multiplicities

By admin | Published: February 14, 2014

Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations Contents 1. Multiplicities Old and New 2. Urban Crowds, Mediated Publics and Global Masses 3. Population, ‘the People’ and the Multitude 4. What is the Building Block of the Social? Episteme of the One and the Many 5. Across and Within: Issues of Virality, Imitation and Reactivity […]

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Scipio Sighele 1913-2013

By admin | Published: October 4, 2013

Scipio Sighele, la psicologia delle folle e le origini della sociologia del ventesimo secolo Versione pubblicata: http://fondazione.museostorico.it/index.php/content/download/6327/79778/file/altrestorie41.PDF

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Social multiplicities: A Return on the Notion of Individual

By admin | Published: March 12, 2013

A seminar I’m delivering on March 21st at Public Sphere, Crowd Sentiments and the Brain. A Public Lecture Series at Copenhagen Business School organized by Christian Borch, Thomas Z. Ramsøy and Stefan Schwarzkopf.

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Roundtable | Entre renaissance citoyenne et transparence politique

By admin | Published: November 6, 2012

I’ve been invited at a roundtable at Les Rencontres d’Averroès (Marseille), titled “Entre renaissance citoyenne et transparence politique. Révolution numérique ou contrôle des libertés ?” More details here : http://www.rencontresaverroes.net/nsite/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=10 * The debate has also been recently broadcasted at the French National Radio Franceculture : http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-culturesmonde-pensees-mediterraneennes-la-citoyennete-a-l’heure-du-numerique-12-2012-12-11 Posted also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuZv9WBXqdM

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Mille Plateaux – A reading Seminar

By admin | Published: November 1, 2012

With Mariasole Ariot, I’m organising an independent reading seminar of Mille Plateaux / A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. + info : http://www.professionaldreamers.net/?p=2754

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Review of “The Social after Gabriel Tarde”

By admin | Published: March 30, 2012

http://csx.sagepub.com/content/41/2/187 .

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Tarde, Canetti, and Deleuze on crowds and packs

By admin | Published: November 25, 2010

Journal of Classical Sociology November 26, 2010 vol. 10 no. 4 291-314 http://jcs.sagepub.com/content/10/4/291 Abstract A discussion of the works of Tarde, Canetti, and Deleuze reveals some common insights into a social epistemology that rejects both methodological individualism and methodological holism. In this respect, the debate on crowds in the last quarter of the nineteenth century […]

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Democracy and its visibilities

By admin | Published: January 27, 2010

here – published in Haggerty, Kevin D. and Minas Samatas (eds.) Surveillance and Democracy. London: Routledge, pp. 51-68

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