ABSTRACT

In this paper, we operationalise a postmodern conceptualisation of desire in order to articulate occupation as a passionate, creative, and productive process that is entangled with the social world. Employing the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we use the concepts of assemblage and desire to theorise how passionate impulses are socially constructed and produce the flows of everyday life. The concept of assemblages refers to the dynamic webs of interconnection that make up our social world. The social and material elements within an assemblage (human, non-human, physical, non-physical) are continually shaping and being shaped by each other, entangled in an ongoing process of social production. In this paper, we theorise occupation as an assemblage, as a dynamic and social process that produces the flows of everyday life. The concept of desire refers to the creative impulse and passion that stirs individuals to create or act within their social world/assemblage. We present desire as a social force, one that is produced by the assemblages of everyday life and also one that produces everyday life. While the assemblages of everyday life have the potential to constrain desire, they also have the potential to creatively liberate the transformative potential of desire – generating liberating occupational flows.

摘要

在本文中，我们将后现代的欲望概念化运作，以将职业阐明为与社会世界纠缠在一起的充满激情、创造性和生产性的过程。采用 Gilles Deleuze 和 Felix Guattari 的哲学，我们使用组合和欲望的概念理论化激情冲动是如何在社会上构建并产生日常生活的流动的。集合的概念是指构成我们社会世界的动态互联网络。集合中的社会和物质元素（人的、非人的、物质的、非物质的）不断地相互塑造和被塑造，纠缠在一个持续的社会生产过程中。在本文中，我们将职业理论化为一种集合体，一种产生日常生活流动的动态和社会过程。欲望的概念是指激发个人在他们的社会世界/群体中创造或行动的创造性冲动和激情。我们将欲望呈现为一种社会力量，它是由日常生活的集合产生的，也是产生日常生活的力量。