This article explores our sense of stability and instability. For example, is contemporary life governed by uncertainty, fluidity and sociotechnical acceleration, or do relative stability or inertia still represent the predominant experience in many domains? In particular, can stabilities and instabilities represent symbiotic processes, the one interwoven with the other? Furthermore, are theories conventionally treated as antagonistic more intimately related than we tend to consider, such as those favouring historical sedimentation over performativity and the assembly of the ‘new’? In comparing stabilisation and destabilisation, the article considers divergent theses of temporality, such as acceleration and refeudalisation, and the way that social theory appears peppered with images of stability and instability. To explore the symbiosis between stabilising and destabilising processes, it considers the social science disciplines of economics and accounting. In so doing, it addresses debate surrounding critical realism, historical sedimentation, governmentality and performativity, with attention to the argument of Abbott, Bourdieu, Callon, Elias, Neckel and Rosa. It also examines micro–macro relations, and the implicit theories of the self that inform the macroanalytical portrayal of stabilisation and destabilisation. Rather than seeing stability and instability as ‘opposites’, it argues that we should be open to the possibility that they may often be closely interrelated.

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稳定不稳定？重新思考时间性的图像

本文探讨了我们的稳定感和不稳定感。例如，当代生活是否受到不确定性、流动性和社会技术加速的支配，或者相对稳定性或惯性是否仍然代表着许多领域的主导经验？特别是，稳定性和不稳定是否可以代表共生过程，即一个与另一个相互交织？此外，传统上被视为对立的理论是否比我们倾向于认为的更密切相关，例如那些赞成历史沉淀而不是表演性和“新”集合的理论？在比较稳定和不稳定时，本文考虑了关于时间性的不同论点，例如加速和再封建化，以及社会理论中充斥着稳定和不稳定图像的方式。为了探索稳定过程和不稳定过程之间的共生关系，它考虑了经济学和会计学等社会科学学科。在此过程中，它讨论了围绕批判现实主义、历史沉淀、治理性和表演性的争论，并关注阿博特、布迪厄、卡隆、埃利亚斯、内克尔和罗莎的论点。它还研究了微观与宏观关系，以及隐含的自我理论，这些理论为稳定和不稳定的宏观分析描绘提供了信息。它认为，我们不应该将稳定和不稳定视为“对立的”，而是应该对它们可能经常密切相关的可能性持开放态度。