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In its tendency towards desubstantialization, relationality implies a shift from substantial reality to event. In any dynamic network of relations, as Cooper (2005, pp. 1699) points out, entities do not appear as separate, static substances but as events: if an entity is defined by its relations, then by definition a change in any relation produces a change in the entity too. Thus, relational entities ‘happen’ rather than exist in their own right in themselves (ibid., p. 1707). They are shaped by series and flow of events.
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Pyyhtinen, O. (2010). Event Dynamics. In: Simmel and ‘the Social’. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289840_4
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