ABSTRACT This paper surveys discussions of abstraction in the sociological and political economic literature that tie it a relation to the material. This is developed from the work of Alfred Sohn-Rethel. Under the rubric of the liminal, the diachronic interchange between these poles will be examined to better understand how the Abstract saturates the material. This entails not only the purely Abstract but involves Virtualities that are intangible, Ideal-Real. This lends reality an air of added dimensions, expanding the Real beyond the merely material into a non-Euclidean, ‘abstract space’. This spatialization of abstraction is introduced within the work of Sohn-Rethel but has not been remarked upon. While this multidimensional topological space appears to have magical qualities, Turner’s understanding of liminality is drawn upon to understand the dynamic quality of abstraction as a relation and process between the Abstract and Material. Liminality mobilizes the Virtual or ideal-real. Liminal rituals are epistemic ‘sociotechniques’ (cf. Krämer, Siegert) involving abstraction and the management of abstraction through simple ritual action. Abstraction does not pull away from as much as extend and configure the Real (Lyotard).

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名词抽象

摘要本文概述了社会学和政治经济学文献中有关抽象与材料之间关系的讨论。这是根据阿尔弗雷德·索恩·雷塞尔（Alfred Sohn-Rethel）的工作开发的。在门槛的标题下，将检查这些极之间的历时互换，以更好地理解摘要如何使材料饱和。这不仅需要纯粹的抽象，而且还涉及无形的，理想现实的虚拟。这给现实带来了更多维度的氛围，将“真实”从单纯的物质扩展到了非欧几里得的“抽象空间”。这种抽象的空间化是在Sohn-Rethel的工作中引入的，但尚未对此进行评论。虽然这个多维拓扑空间似乎具有神奇的特质，特纳对合法性的理解是用来理解抽象的动态质量，作为抽象和素材之间的关系和过程。限制动员了虚拟的或理想的现实。礼仪仪式是认知的“社会技术”（参见Krämer，Siegert），涉及抽象和通过简单的仪式行动进行抽象的管理。抽象与扩展和配置Real（Lyotard）的差距不大。