Acting with the World by Andrew Pickering
Pickering explores examples of acting-with from around the globe and argues that acting-with intimately and gracefully plugs us into nature, undercuts the Anthropocene from below, and offers a constructive approach to addressing otherwise intractable wicked problems.
“Andrew Pickering is a wonderful writer as well as a consistently original thinker who weaves together empirical materials and conceptual sophistication in a way that is both instructive and a pleasure to readHe speaks to current concerns with the environmental and climate crisis with a distinctive and important voice. Acting with the World is a book to enjoy and to be provoked by.” -- Andrew Barry, author of * Material Politics: Disputes along the Pipeline *
“Rethinking our ways of addressing and acting with nature and the natural world in a time of ecological catastrophes, Andrew Pickering provides a way for us to (re)imagine utopia. Few books engage in the challenging matters of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change as clearly, deeply, and beautifully as Pickering’s. It is hard to overestimate Acting with the World’s potential importance and influence.” -- Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, author of * Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics *
“Rethinking our ways of addressing and acting with nature and the natural world in a time of ecological catastrophes, Andrew Pickering provides a way for us to (re)imagine utopia. Few books engage in the challenging matters of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change as clearly, deeply, and beautifully as Pickering’s. It is hard to overestimate Acting with the World’s potential importance and influence.” -- Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, author of * Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781478031512 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478031514 |
| Title | Acting with the World |
| Author | Andrew Pickering |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2025-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
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