Καιρός (Kairos)

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    Persistence of everyday categorizations against renewal through induction
    (Plovdiv University Press, 2025-12-15) Mineva, Martina
    The text explores the issue of the persistence of everyday categorizations of citizens from the "Maritsa East" coal basin region during the period 2024–2025, based on interviews conducted within the project "Future Trapped in a Carbon Past", DUECOS, PU. Based on my conceptual connecting of Harvey Sacks’ concept of “protection against induction” and Lyotard’s interpretation of legitimation within language games as a method (a problematic inspired by late Wittgenstein), the argument is made that in a number of utterances stabilized social categories can be identified, which, as stable categorizations, are linked to legitimating strategies that block the potential for a praxeological inductive refutation, and, consequently, for the renewal of social experience. The study traces how specific linguistic constructions – especially quantifications through “everyone”, “no one”, “always” – operate analogously to Sacks’s anti-modifier modifiers which legitimize praxeological boundaries of categorical, and thereby social, immutability. Based on an analysis of fragments from the interviews, a typology of strategies is proposed: some oriented toward maintaining the persistence of categorical explanations, and others toward inductive practices, related to rethinking, specifying, personalizing, and proposing new life trajectories. In this context, “de-paralyzing possibilities” are conceived as discursive transitions that activate the potential for biographical transformation and the unfolding of alternative regimes of legitimation.
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    Practicological dimensions of persistence, renewal, legitimation: contradictions of the present (“Maritsa-Iztok”)
    (Plovdiv University Press, 2026-08-02) Mineva, Martina
    The text proposes a continuation of a practicological reading of transformation processes in the “Maritsa-Iztok” region in early 2026, focusing on an empirical verification of the hypothesis of the “move potential” of language games and practices. The analysis, which takes (Mineva, 2025) as its background, unfolds through a specific synthetic approach inspired by Sacks ("protection against induction"), Lyotard (agonistics of discourse), and Wittgenstein (the concept of language games), but leading to an interpretation that extends beyond their conceptual frameworks and focuses on the field of practical logic. It traces the clash between the legitimized carbon routine – viewed as a series of categorical explanations immune to induction – and emerging inductive practices of renewal. The empirical cases that fall within this theoretical framework are as follows: the conflict surrounding the plans for the construction of an incinerator in Galabovo, analyzed as a clash of legitimation regimes between administrative logic and civic activism; the transformation of community centers (chitalishta) into robotics hubs, viewed as a shift in the rules of the language game and the deparalyzing of the biographical horizon; and the strategic speech and ritual moves in the village of Beli briag, through which the community legitimizes its existence as a category despite the physical erasure of the settlement by the coal mine. The examined cases show how the future of the region can be understood as taking shape through a transition from passive belonging and self-marginalization to becoming an active subject.
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    Тhe Janus-faced abductive inference
    (Plovdiv University Press, 2024-09-01) Mineva, Martina
    The text offers an analysis of the problem of the abductive inference’s internal limits, attempting to extract the theoretical charge of the metaphor about Janus-faced abduction, offered by John Kaag. This problem is put into consideration through Charles Peirce's dual definition of abduction simultaneously as both a process of forming explanatory hypotheses and the only logicaloperation that presents new ideas. It is emphasized that: by going through 1) taking into account the praxeological turn in logic (20th century); 2) making sense of an analogous metaphor in Ernest Cassirer, which refers to symbolic forms; and 3) turning to an attempt to analyze Kepler's discovery of the shape of the orbit of Mars as the most emblematic example of abductive inference (as Peirce points out), it is possible to think the theoretical charge of the metaphor of the Janus-faced abduction. The results of the investigation are presented summarized with the highlighting of the following problems: 1) the modal conflict of the forbidden obligatory; 2) the weak incommensurability; and 3) the dynamics between forma formans and forma formata.