ABSTRACT
The previous chapter outlined our underlying ontological presuppositions and our associated ontology of social relations. Among other things, it provided us with the theoretical and conceptual resources to develop our basic units of explanation, which we conceive in terms of logics. In this chapter, we show how our conception of a logic in the social sciences, and the particular logics we elaborate, enable us to characterize and elucidate the transformation, stabilization, and maintenance of regimes and social practices. In a nutshell, we suggest that a social science explanation involves the mobilization of three types of logic, which we name social, political and fantasmatic respectively, that are articulated together to account for a problematized phenomenon.
