ABSTRACT
The ultimate objective of bottom-up Critical Theory is to understand how
agents who, in their interactions, are concerned with the systemic constraints of their interaction, end up generating de facto systemic constraints
that (a) are non-intentional and (b) can be put into question by reflexive
distancing. This can allow us to generate a multilevel retroactive loop inside
of which emergent phenomena serve not only as systemic constraints, but
also as endogenous ‘‘reflexive springboards’’ for individual and collective
action aimed at shifting or even subverting the systemic constraints, or at
gradually altering their nature.
