Andamios
January 10, 2025
António Carvalho
1 citation
El objetivo de este artículo es promover una reflexión sobre las articulaciones entre las tecnologías del sujeto, la política y la ontología, a partir del caso de las prácticas meditativas. En la literatura crítica sobre la meditación, hay una tendencia a asociar tales prácticas con el neoliberalismo. El artículo pretende problematizar esa asociación mediante el desarrollo de un...
e-cadernos CES
December 9, 2024
António Carvalho, Mariana Riquito
This experimental article departs from the current controversy of the Anthropocene to reflect on alternatives to modern Western rationality, highlighting the need to develop non-modern ontologies to face the current climate and environmental crisis. A series of heterogeneous examples are used – from contemplative practices, altered states of consciousness to planetary models – to reflect on the...
e-cadernos CES
2024
António Carvalho
Este artigo oferece um mapeamento provisório de alguns dos impactos afetivos do Antropoceno, uma época geológica proposta para ilustrar a indissociabilidade entre agência humana e fenómenos planetários. O artigo decorre de dois projetos de investigação: um doutoramento que levou a cabo uma análise ontológica de práticas meditativas Vipassana e Zen em França, Portugal e Reino Unido e um projeto...
Communication & Language at Work
December 13, 2022
António Carvalho, Rita Grácio
12 citations
Purpose: The aim of our paper is to analyze the role of mindfulness in organizational socialization, particularly how these techniques are mobilized by corporations to reshape employees’ subjectivities. Design/Methodology/Approach: Mindfulness is a process of awareness to moment-to-moment experience, allowing subjects to deal with emotions, sensations and thoughts in a non-judgmental way...
Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography
March 31, 2017
António Carvalho
25 citations
Drawing upon current concerns within non-representational and post-humanist theory, this paper explores the potential of meditation to trigger non-modern forms of affect. Supported by qualitative methodology which included participant observation at mindfulness and Vipassana retreats and semi-structured interviews with meditators, the paper analyses a number of subjective transformations...
e-cadernos CES
2010
António Carvalho
The present proliferation of alternative and non-western practices challenges the way how modern selves are enacted, the distinction between ancient and contemporary, and obliges us to rethink the ways our bodies and minds are produced. By mingling the care of the self and self knowledge, some technologies of the self offer interesting paths to redefine and change our selves, questioning the...