Memory , that chain of meaning links, ruled by he who was the first to gain power over the tools of meaning and language. Agency comes armed with structure, and in turn remakes structure, becomes structure itself, the past becomes the present which becomes the future, held together by Existence, by structure becoming agency which becomes structure again. Occasionally one preponderates over the other, but over large stretches a balance is regained. So existence itself appears as a metaphysical quantity.
The problem of social agency , of freedom from the bondage of the imaginary social order and its symbols is an important concern of even the earliest writers. We find it in the Upanishads, we find it in the Hebrew prophets, we find it in Dante, and Cervantes, even in Spinoza. But the growth of formal ontology and sociology explicitly stated some of these concerns. The great rationalists, Descartes and the Cartesians …show more content…
The infinite variety of man, and the infinite variety of social consciousness, it’s tussles and compromise with the agency of human particles that never quite resolve into material aggregates, but remain plural fluid, changing and churning values. That ask awkward questions and give creative answers to which structure provides creative responses. Little girls, tired old men, kings and rebels, women and men all display this varied picture and changing hues, of social existence and ontological negotiation. The Body most material and visible, is its most convenient site and measure. The dark corners of human affairs, the whispers and secrets that capable ears can hear, and understand deep lessons and facets of social