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On Qualculation, Agency, and Otherness
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In this paper we explore the boundary between calculative and noncalculative action by arguing that these are separate but mutually constitutive. By using the notion of qualculation, a neologism coined by Cochoy, we redefine the notion of calculation to include judgment. We then argue that making qualculability is not trivial: that it takes effort to create calculation and judgment. But it also takes effort to consider nonqualculability. Two strategies for achieving nonqualculability are identified, those of rarefaction and proliferation. Rarefaction, illustrated by the cases of Quaker worship and selfless love or agapè, works by withdrawing all qualculative resources. Conversely, proliferation, illustrated by the attribution of cause and responsibility after railway accidents, and by a major television fund-raiser, the ‘Téléthon’, works to impede calculation by an overload of qualculative resources.
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“The grain store thus became not only a repository but a calculative arrangement through which economic flows could be aligned with governance objectives such as fiscal preparedness, disaster relief, and social stability.”
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“Building on Callon and Muniesa's (2005) and Callon and Law's (2005) conception of calculation as a materially organized process, this section shows how Buddhist monastic institutions functioned as fiscal calculative spaces through three interrelated mechanisms-detachment, manipulation and transformation, and extraction-within which people, land, and wealth were progressively rendered calculable”
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“Drawing on Callon and Muniesa's (2005) and Callon and Law's (2005) conceptualization of calculation as a process of detachment, transformation, and extraction, the analysis has shown that monasteries were not merely affected by state fiscal interventions but were actively constituted as institutional infrastructures that enabled calculation to take place.”
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- Authors
- Callon, M., & Law, J.
- Affiliations
- Centre de sociologie de l'innovation (FR)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Callon, Michel
- Law, John
- Venue
- Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-10
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 717-733
- ISSN
- 0263-7758 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-3433
- OpenAlex
- W2032280823
- Cited by
- 448
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 36.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Environment and Planning D Society and Space (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Online (The Open University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Realism in Sociology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Keywords
- calculation, agency, otherness, judgment, rarefaction, proliferation, agape, Quaker worship, railway accidents, attribution of responsibility, Téléthon
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