Acting with the World

Auteur

Andrew Pickering is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Philosophy at Exeter University, author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future, and coeditor of The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming, also published by Duke University Press.

Texte du rabat

To address the crises of the Anthropocene, Andrew Pickering proposes a new way of being and doing that he calls acting with the world, in which we foreground nonhuman and more-than-human agency and attune our practices to those that align with the world’s best interests.

Contenu

Preface ix
Introduction. Acting on or with the World 1

1. Eels: The Dance of Agency
2. The Mississippi: Enframing and Letting Go
3. Erosion: Poiesis
4. The Colorado
5. Water: A New Paradigm
6. Natural Farming
7. A Choreography of Fire
8. Spirits
   Conclusion. Poiesis
   Notes
   References
   Index