Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031512ISBN-10:1478031514UPC:9781478031512Book Category:Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Anthropology, Earth SciencesBook Topic:GeographySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCSTNQ8Z0R
Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene
In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World, Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a pattern which he calls acting-with the world. In contrast to our usual practice of acting on the world,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031512ISBN-10:1478031514UPC:9781478031512Book Category:Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Anthropology, Earth SciencesBook Topic:GeographySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCSTNQ8Z0R
Andrew Pickering is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Philosophy at Exeter University and author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. He is the coeditor of The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming, also published by Duke University Press.
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