What is "relational"

Usage examples of "relational".

The immediately social dimension of the exploitation of living immaterial labor immerses labor in all the relational elements that define the social but also at the same time activate the critical elements that develop the potential of insubordination and revolt through the entire set of laboring practices.

My own view is a belief in the relational theory both of space and of time, and of disbelief in the current form of the relational theory of space which exhibits bits of matter as the relata for spatial relations.

Rather than focussing on words and sentences in isolation, and assuming that these have stable meanings by themselves, it will examine them from a relational perspective, and, in particular, in relation to the larger discursive structures, or framing discourses, within which we interpret these texts.

These relational exchanges are embedded in the traditions and institutions of a particular society in such a way that that society can reproduce itself on a cultural level, can reproduce itself in the noosphere.

And, as we will see throughout this book, same-level relational exchange does not mean that the micro exchanges with a pregiven macro: they co-create each other in emergent worldspaces.

I criticize the merely objectifying mode of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigmthe philosophy of the disengaged self or subjectit is a criticism not of objectifying but of only objectifying: of the failure to see that the subject still exists in patterns of relational exchange with similarly depthed subjects, which finally anchors not only the we but the I.

Both the signifiers and the signifieds exist as holons, or whole/parts in a chain of whole/parts, and, as Saussure made clear, it is their relational standing that confers meaning on each (language is a meaningful system of meaningless elements: as always, the regime or structure of the superholon confers meaning on the subholons, meaning which the subholons do not and cannot possess on their own).

The tendency toward shorter relational durations is thus built more deeply into the social structure than arguments over planned obsolescence or the manipulative effectiveness of Madison Avenue would suggest.

New discoveries, new technologies, new social arrangements in the external world erupt into our lives in the form of increased turnover rates--shorter and shorter relational durations.

The nature of these added particles may be: Negative, Intensitive, Honorific, Hypothetical, Interrogative, Imperative, Directional, Futuritive or Historical, Relational or Descriptive.

If lower holons possess interiority, which I believe they do, and if any holon exists only in a system of relational exchange with other same-level holons, which it does, then any holon possesses a shared interiority with its peers, and that is a "world-view" or "common worldspace" in the broadest sense.

The math underlying relational databases, for instance, accessed by virtually every Internet user every day, is pure and beautiful.