Despite its idiosyncratic features, the experience of the Greek crisis of the 2010s was decisively shaped by discourses articulated at the global, European, and national levels. While numerous sociological accounts have explored the spatio-temporal continuities and discontinuities of the crisis, few scholars have employed the concept of trauma to make sense of what changed and what remained the same, before and after the default. From a psychosocial perspective, this is a missed opportunity, not least because trauma is a boundary and thus enigmatic concept that, rather than typifying change, seeks to illuminate the interconnections between past and present, self and other, memory and practice. Drawing on 91 life story interviews conducted between 2020 and 2023, the paper examines the trauma of the Greek crisis, with a particular focus on its often-overlooked class-related manifestations.

The article advances our understanding of “identifications,” such as race, class, gender, familial, and religious, which are seen as active processes continuously reconstituted through interactions (with objects, technologies, discourses, and bodies) in assemblages. “Identitarian articulations” represent the unique entanglements of these identifications within different assemblages. This concept highlights how identifications interact dynamically within a given assemblage, creating distinct articulations that reflect the particular assemblage’s characteristics. The text emphasizes that assemblages are not static but ongoing processes shaped by desires and interactions among their components (people, objects, technologies, discourses, and emotions). These interactions affect the capacities of the identifications involved. We understand capacities as potential actions stemming from identifications, suggesting that while properties define entities, their capacities reveal what they can do in relation to others. In summary, the article investigates how identifications, through their entanglement, trigger specific identitarian articulations within varying assemblages and the role of capacities in these processes.

This paper explores the intricate interplay between mathematics, poetry, and imagination through a close reading of writings by two women mathematicians, Ada Lovelace and Sofia Kovalevskaya. Drawing on Romantic conceptions of the poetic, philosophical accounts of imagination and scientific reverie, and rhythmic and echoic conceptions of subjectivity, the paper argues for a poetics of mathematical thought that resists rigid disciplinary separations. It traces how these women’s literary work mobilizes imaginative registers–analogy, reverie, rhythm, echo, dream–not as metaphors for mathematics, but as vital forms of mathematical invention and expression. The result is a rethinking of what it means to ‘do’ mathematics poetically, not in spite of abstraction, but through and with it–through the reverberations, returns, and recursive patterns that echo through both mathematical and poetic forms.

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‘Lived experience’ is a pivotal concept in activism, highlighting the rights of marginalised individuals to share their stories and gain recognition within broader societal discourse. Social movements...

Police officers in the South African Police Service (SAPS) undertake their police work within national, institutional, and personal discourses. Together, these discourses create different, often contr...

Drawing on the author’s own experience, this paper explores the rarely researched experience of sibling abortion under China’s One-Child Policy through a psychodynamic lens. The author uses writing as...

In addressing the liberation dilemma in post-operaismo theory, Berardi transforms radical political action into his politics of therapy. He emphasizes the reinforcement of capitalist domination and th...

Deconstructionist depiction of fictionality within the relationship between truth and sovereignty helps to understand how time relates to post-truth politics and to counter its proliferation within po...

This article presents the case for a rethinking of wellbeing in precarious times. Covid-19 made visible ways in which precarity has become central to daily living and to existence itself. From employm...

This is a commentary on (Ruse et al. Left to their own devices: The significance of mental health apps on the construction of therapy and care, Subjectivity, 2024), published in the Special Collection...

Mental health (MH) mobile apps offer convenient, low/no-cost automated psychological support. Little is known about what this technology does to the very definition of MH care. Looking through a post-...