Linking Collaboration and Contradiction: Zur Erforschung Adaptiver Subjekte

Abstract

"‘Adaptive Subjects’ asks about the ways in which subjects come into being. In doing so, we assume that discourses, materiality, and actors are not antecedents to subjects, nor do they exist independently of one another; rather, they are connected in the constitution of subjects. We describe as adaption the capacity of subjects to simultaneously distinguish themselves from such orders whilst also appropriating them. In this way, adaption marks the necessity of shaping both oneself and one’s own social environment. In order to examine ‘adaption’ as a capacity of subjects and the possibilities inherent within it for the simultaneity of collaboration and contradiction, we focus on three analytical categories. Firstly, we emphasise the processual understanding of subjectivation to reconstruct ‘adaption’. Secondly, we point to subjects’ wilful handling of discursive interpellations, which is observable as Eigen-Sinn. Thirdly, by simultaneously discussing subjection and resistance, we situate the question of subject constitution - from both sociology of knowledge-interpretative and poststructuralist-difference theoretical subjectivation concepts - as an empirical question. For such analyses, we propose concrete aspects of subjectivation processes which also structure the present volume: ambiguity (Mehrdeutigkeit), passages (Passagen), pain (Schmerz) and interventions (Eingriffe). Zusammenfassung" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer) ((en))

Cite article

Röhrer, S., Trucco, N., Pokitsch, D. & Brodersen, F. (2026): Linking Collaboration and Contradiction: Zur Erforschung Adaptiver Subjekte. In: F. Brodersen, D. Pokitsch, S. Röhrer & N. Trucco (Hrsg.) (2026): Adaptive Subjekte. Linking Collaboration and Contradiction. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-49531-2_1