How to Address the Deficit-Populism Double Bind? A Contemporary Ordoliberal Perspective

Previous studies have demonstrated that women in male-dominated fields face a challenging “double bind”—they must display traditionally masculine traits while maintaining feminine qualities. This study provides a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of gender performances by male and female entrepreneurs on Twitter (now X) at three levels: (1) issues, (2) personality traits, and (3) linguistic styles. The primary purpose is to examine how the “double bind” manifests in male and female entrepreneurs’ social media performances. The findings suggest that both male and female entrepreneurs strategically navigate the “double bind”, balancing gender role expectations while engaging their followers across diverse topics. Their performances feature a “double bind” with a twist, as both male and female entrepreneurs tend to adopt an interactive and engaging style rather than a combative and confrontational one to connect with their followers and maintain interactive intimacy.

Context: Wealthy countries vary considerably in terms of how well they have been able to inoculate their populations against COVID-19. In particular, democracies have been constrained in their abilities to implement vaccine mandates, given enshrined protections of civil liberties and individual freedom in such regimes. While scholars have begun addressing the democratic constraint on vaccine mandates, less attention has been paid to the additional challenges democracies face in constraining the spread of vaccine misinformation—particularly misinformation that spreads online. Methods: This study combines large-N cross-country analysis with a case study of Germany to illustrate the “double bind” that democracies face when it comes to containing both the spread of disease and the spread of misinformation through social media. Findings: The cross-national analysis confirms that democracies have been less likely to enact vaccine mandates, and they have also been relatively more hesitant to restrict what people can see and share online. The case study of Germany highlights the normative and the procedural constraints underlying such decisions. Conclusions: These findings show that resources are often not the binding constraint on effective disease control, raising questions regarding the ability of high-income democracies to respond effectively to future public health emergencies.

Ecological implications of 'double bind' : Korean literature of 'The Period of Transition toward Unification'

What follows is the elaboration of a series of discussions held by the two authors at a seminar during which we tried to “read” Wim Wenders's Lisbon Story starting from Gregory Bateson's double bind theory. These discussions then developed into writings that were intertwined, hybridized, corrected, extended, and cut. We experimented directly with the game of relationships, the “mess that works” of the difficult distinction between map and territory, between epistemology and cinematography. Emerging from general considerations on cinema is the double bind of the “crisis” of images, a prelude to a renewed faith in the creative and constructive possibilities of art: image not as a replica but as the experience of a relationship.

Fidelities. Now that she has brought it out, she recognizes it as the word on which all hinges.J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, 224. ABSTRACTThe point of departure of this essay is a paradox in traditional conceptions of historical objectivity. This paradox can best be analyzed in terms of the notion of the “double bind”: the requirement of historical objectivity is formulated in such a way that it is impossible to satisfy the requirement. The substance of this essay is an investigation of how J. M. Coetzee deals with the moral impasses of this double bind in his most recent novel, Elizabeth Costello (2003). In essence Coetzee forces his way through the double bind by an appeal to a direct experience of the world. The Spinozism implied by this strategy is indicated at the end of the essay. The analysis of Coetzee's novel is preceded by a discussion of Kafka's “Before the Law,” since the relevant part of Coetzee's novel clearly is a paraphrase of the Kafka parable. Moreover, insight into the textual double binds in the Kafka parable contributes to an understanding of the moral double binds that are addressed in Elizabeth Costello.

PART I: ENGAGING THE DOUBLE BINDS 'Double Binds: Ethics after Auschwitz' J.K.Roth 'Morality after Auschwitz?: Haas, Nietzsche, and the Possibilities for Revaluation' B.Benedix 'Cutting the Roots of the Holocaust: Resisting the Enlightenment's Universalizing Impulse' H.Kassim 'The Tikkun of Philosophy and the Idea of Humanity' E.Galbraith PART II: SURVEYING THE FRAGMENTS 'Survival of the Closest: Gender and Agency in Holocaust Resistance' T.K.Parker & M.Goldenberg 'The Role of Moral Examples in Teaching Ethics after the Holocaust: Reconsidering the Rescue of the Danish Jews' H.Trautner-Kromann 'Dignity and Despair: The Double Bind of Jean Amery's Odyssey' M.Stern PART III: SALVAGING THE ETHICAL 'Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust' J.L.Geddes 'Making Ethical Sense of Useless Suffering with Levinas' J.Simon 'Reconstituting Political Philosophy After the Holocaust: Towards the Prevention of Genocide' M.Gerber

Western culture puts women in a number of double binds. One of these is constituted by society's expectation that women attain a standard of beauty whose attainment requires much beauty work and its contrary expectation that women present a physically unembellished self. Because these expectations are so emphatically sanctioned, women should respond positively to a message promising to deliver them from this double bind. This article illustrates the power of that double bind and women's desire for release from it by examining a remarkably unexpected audience reaction to a public speech that only tangentially addressed this double bind. Along the way, it demonstrates that audiences are active participants in speech events (e.g., Atkinson, 1984) and can respond to a message in a manner different than what the speaker wished or anticipated.

Agnes Heller was one of the first critical theorists to turn her attention to a contemporary theory of modernity. Yet her many writings on this topic remained fragments until the publication of her A Theory of Modernity (1999). This article focuses on the structural elements of this account. It traces the evolution of Heller's ideas in regard to logics, dynamic and social arrangement of modernity. It explains how these fit into her own development towards the standpoint she describes as postmodern resignation and her notions of the `double bind' and `pendulum of modernity'. It argues that while Heller has modified her conception of the multiple logics of modernity to keep faith with a critical brief and an open-ended vision, some theoretical tensions remain. In particular, it explores the idea of modernity as a `steamroller' in conjunction with the question of its survival. It also questions whether Heller's emphatic normative vision of cultural modernity can easily be reconciled with the empirical trends of globalization that promise an increasing diversity of modernities.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unexpected event for mankind, as a result of which people experienced a prolonged situation of uncertainty, self-isolation and faced a number of unique restrictive measures. Researchers note a deterioration of the psychological health of population during the pandemic. In this case, a special role is played by media, which activity leads to infodemic and aggravation of negative psychological effects among the population.This study focuses on the activity of Russian media during the COVID-19 epidemic through the lens of G. Bateson’s concept. The dynamics of the publication activity of Russian media in the first and second wave of the spread of coronavirus in relation to the dynamics of the epidemic is analyzed. In addition to this, news content and discourse were studied.The first wave of the epidemic was significantly higher in media coverage than the second, although in terms of scale, the second wave of COVID-19 was more devastating. It was revealed that both state and independent media decrease their activity as the epidemic in Moscow declines. Thus, in the summer of 2020 in regions with an increasing number of newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19, the audience receives a double bind: “the epidemic does not deserve the former attention, although the risk of infection increases”.State media broadcast a calming discourse, though restrictive measures are unprecedented, especially in the first wave of the epidemic. Here we face another double bind: “you shouldn’t be afraid of COVID-19, but you can’t leave home unnecessarily and you have to change your lifestyle and adapt to the situation”. Double binds from media are considered regarding masks, gloves, necessary quarantine measures, teleworking, online study, statistics, actions in case of infection, vaccination, etc.Prolonged exposure in the set of media double binds regarding COVID-19 leads to various manifestations of schizophrenic symptoms. In the first wave of the epidemic hebephrenic manifestations are noticeable: messages are ridiculed without taking into account the context; a specific language is created. Another way is a spread of conspiracy theories. The last option is an escape from the topic, which is noticeable when comparing the publication activity, interest and emotional reaction of the media sphere during the first and second wave. The obtained results mean the necessity of reflection on the work of media in potential similar periods in the future. This leads to a dilemma between liberty and security.

The culture of learning has been severely eroded in many South African schools. This article analyzes the relationship between this erosion and the legacy of apartheid in terms of the double bind hypothesis. Adouble bind occurs when (interpersonal or cultural) injunctions demanding certain itemsof behavior are regularly accompanied by higher-order injunctions forbidding the patternsof behavior that must necessarily result from obeying those injunctions. The hypothesis proposes that people caught in a double bind might lose the ability to distinguish between the two orders of injunctions. The analysis suggests that many Black South Africans have fallen victim to a double bind created by contradictions between the injunctions imposed by the school system and those imposed by the former regime’s racist socioeconomic policies. The resultant confusion between levels is evidenced in the fact that many pupils and teachers habitually misinterpret educational injunctions as symbols of political oppression.

Jeré Longman’s controversial 2012 New York Times article criticizing track star and U.S. Olympian Lolo Jones, which reached more than 30 million readers, contributes to the hegemonic ideologies that deride female athletes through double binds. Yet due to Jones’s gender, race, class, and sexuality, traditional double binds do not offer an adequate framework. Employing an intersectional approach that counters a tendency to highlight the experiences of privileged White women, I articulate the binds of feminine/athlete, poor/hustler, and virginal/exotic to complicate feminist communication scholars’ notion of the double bind and address interlocking, inseparable oppressions. Highlighting the significance of nuanced double binds that bridge feminist criticism and critical sport study, I consider the potential for feminist analysis to respond to the bias and backlash experienced by celebrity sportswomen.

The global coronavirus pandemic incited swift public health recommendations and education in the United States and throughout the world to reduce the spread of the virus. In the U.S., the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the “Slow the Spread” campaign in 15 and 30-day increments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other public health organizations and representatives weighed in on the role of face coverings to counter COVID-19 threats to public health. Face coverings became a contested public health recommendation. This article rhetorically analyzes contradiction in COVID-19 face covering recommendations and the ensuant double-binds. Analysis of press conferences, national public health websites, and the “Slow the Spread” campaign reveals contradictions in individual risk-averse public health recommendations, specifically face coverings. Contradictions were categorized into: uncover-cover, risky-risk averse, voluntary-recommended-required, and politically right-left. Implications of contradictory messages create double binds for the public seeking to adhere to public health recommendations for personal and public safety. Double binding public health messages undermine public health goals because double binds often result in maladaptive, inappropriate responses. Conclusions assert that to be a responsible citizen of personal and public health in a viral pandemic is a contested and contradictory accomplishment.

I can remember, says lawyer Flo Kennedy, “going to court in pants and the judge remarking that I wasn’t properly dressed, that the next time I came to court I should be dressed like a lawyer.” It was a moment painfully familiar to countless women: a demand that she conform to a stereotype of feminine dress and behavior—which would also mark her as an intruder, rising above her assigned station (as the saying goes, she dared to “wear the pants” in the courtroom). Kennedy took one look at the judge’s robe—essentially “a long black dress gathered at the yoke”—and said, “Judge, if you won’t talk about what I’m wearing, I won’t talk about what you’re wearing.” In Beyond the Double Bind, Kathleen Hall Jamieson takes her cue from Kennedy’s comeback to argue that the catch-22 that often blocks women from success can be overcome. Sparking her narrative with potent accounts of the many ways women have beaten the double bind that would seem to damn them no matter what they choose to do, Jamieson provides a rousing and emphatic denouncement of victim feminism and the acceptance of inevitable failure. As she explores society’s interlaced traps and restrictions, she draws on hundreds of interviews with women from all walks of life to show the ways they cut through them. Kennedy, for example, faced the bind that insists that women cannot be both feminine and competent—and then demands that they be feminine first; she undermined that trap with wry wit. Ruth Bader Ginsberg attacked the same quandary head-on: when she heard that her law-school nickname was “bitch,” she replied, “Better bitch than mouse.” Jamieson explores the full range of such double binds (the uterus-brain bind, for example—”you can’t conceive children and ideas at the same time”; or the assertion, “You are too special to be equal”), offering a roadmap for moving past these barricades to advancement. Unlike other breakthrough feminist writers, she finds grounds for optimism in areas ranging from slow improvements in women’s earnings to newly effective legal remedies, from growing social awareness to the determination and skill of individual women who are fighting the double bind. Jamieson is a widely sought-after authority on politics and communications; this book marks a dramatic new departure for her, one certain to win widespread attention. With intensive research and incisive analysis, she provides a landmark account of the binds that ensnare women’s lives—and the ways they can overcome them.

(2003). Dewey, Derrida, and ‘the Double Bind’. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 349-362.

THIS is a report on some theoretical and technical contributions to the investigation of the double bind; they are the product of an ongoing research project on communication in the families of schizophrenic patients. The purposes of the present paper are to describe a researchable elaboration of the double bind theory, specifying the minimum level of complexity deemed necessary for such a communicational study and suggesting a method of breaking the data into units which are neither meaninglessly isolated nor too complex to be handled. Having proposed disqualification as an operational component of the overall double bind pattern, we will identify, define, and illustrate some varieties of what will be called transactional disqualification and emphasize another equally essential component, the response of the "victim." <h3>The Double Bind Hypothesis</h3> In essence, we will describe disqualification as one, but definitely not the only,