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标题：Irrtum und Irritation. Für eine kleine Soziologie der Krise nach Foucault und Luhmann
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作者：Andreas Folkers ; Il-Tschung Lim
期刊名称：Behemoth
印刷版ISSN：2191-7582
电子版ISSN：1866-2447
出版年度：2014
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：48-69
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：Crisis frequently figures as a moment of truth in social science literature. In this paper we set out to challenge this long-standing understanding of the crisis and its connection to truth in both critical as well as positivistic accounts in the social sciences. By engaging with Michel Foucault’s understanding of error and Niklas Luhmann’s concept of irritation, we argue for an alternative or ‘minor’ sociology of crisis. Error and irritation are critical micro-events that disrupt social order and change the mode of perceiving the social. Yet, we want to challenge the idea that this disruptive power elucidates underlying structures of the social. We argue rather that error and irritation are critical moments for the production of truth and can thus become constitutive moments of the social retroactively. By placing erroneous and irritating micro-events at the center of Luhmann’s systems theory and Foucault’s analytics of power, these theories appear as analytical approaches that maintain a reflexive and affirmative relationship to the susceptibility of the social.