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Description
Crisis is often seen as an extraordinary event that leads to its management in a more or less unilateral and vertical manner by tightly controlling information flows and narratives (Coombs, 2023; Seeger et al, 2016). Crisis is an opportunity to reconfigure or reterritorialize a system in order to make it more adapted and resilient.
From a sociopragmatic point of view, crises are endemic to all societies because of their very constitution: societies are in fact systems constructed and determined by communication (Habermas, 1987; Luhmann, 1995). However, and this is a central point for crises, this communication is itself constituted by drama, that is to say tensions which tend to accumulate, to produce cumulative interactions which go as far as the system spiralling out of control and destroying it. Crisis is a disruptive force which dramatizes (Deleuze, 1968; Deleuze & Parnet, 1995), shocks (Kraemer & Steg, 2025) and dissolves pre-existing symbiotic arrangements.
The objective of this presentation is 1) to address the communicative constitution of crises by showing their communicative nature and the close relationships between communication and crisis; 2) to present in this context the sociopragmatic model of Deleuze's dynamic and processual sociology from the perspective of crisis as a disruptive dramatic process; 3) to present from this model, the logic of crisis that is deduced from it as schismogenesis and segmentarity (Bateson, 1977; Deleuze & Parnet, 1995); 4) to show how his conception of force and consequently his conception of a disruptive dramatic force renews the analyses of crisis and enriches our understanding of it; 5) to show how dialogue (which is more than a bidirectional symmetrical exchange of information) at the center of this model contributes to learning and the radical transformation of a social system in crisis. Examples of recent crises will be used to illustrate each of these points.
| Keywords | crises, communicative dialogue, social organization forms, social learning, radical transformation, rhizome, agencement |
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| jo.katambwe@uqtr.ca |