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This article proposes a shift in perspective within the historical study of habit—specifically, a move from the historical nominalism underlying genealogical approaches to a historical and materialist analysis inspired by Marxism. The article introduces the concept of dispositional rift, constructed by analogy with the Marxist notion of metabolic rift. However, unlike the latter—which refers to disruptions in the relationship between humanity and nature—the dispositional rift pertains to disturbances in the relationship between humans and their second nature, that is, the domain of the habitual. This concept is intended to describe disruptions in two forms of the externalization of human dispositions: imitation (examined through analyses inspired by Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, himself influenced by Gabriel Tarde) and the projection of habits onto tools and machines (based on the concept from Ernst Kapp’s philosophy of technology of projecting organs onto tools). The second, technological form of the dispositional rift, is presented as the mechanism underlying the real subsumption of labor under capital. This allows for the connection between the concept of habit and the concept of power understood in economic terms.

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Radical embodiment faces two interrelated challenges. The first concerns what it offers metaphysically and epistemically as a comprehensive investigative framework that approaches it criticizes do not. The second, related challenge, concerns a tension between understanding targets of investigation as simultaneously both holistic and multiscaled. The NeuroEcological Nexus Theory (NExT) is presented as illustrative of a radical embodied approach that faces these challenges. While NExT clearly offers an epistemic toolkit for studying its three primary scales of investigation—namely, neural populations, body synergies, and ecological information—it does not offer an argument to metaphysically justify those particular scales. An answer to these challenges is offered by appealing to a complexity science conception of emergence, which is deeply interconnected with the methodology of effective theories to both identify and assess real clumps of phenomena in the world. By deeply intertwining its metaphysics and epistemology, this conception of emergence offers an answer to the challenges faced by NExT and other radical embodied approaches.