The mangle in practice : science, society, and becoming /

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Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Description:xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Science and cultural theory
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7590952
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Other authors / contributors:Pickering, Andrew. 1948-
Guzik, Keith.
ISBN:9780822343516 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822343517 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822343738 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822343738 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-291) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • New Ontologies
  • Part 1. Studies
  • A Choreography of Fire: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts
  • Crate and Mangle: Questions of Agency in Confinement Livestock Facilities
  • Soul Collectors: A Meditation on Arresting Domestic Violence
  • Resisting and Accommodating Thomas Sargent: Putting Rational Expectations Economics through the Mangle of Practice
  • The Mangle of Practice and the Practice of Chinese Medicine: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century China
  • Marup Church and the Politics of Hybridization: On Choice and Becoming
  • Part 2. Reflexivity
  • Going with the Flow: Living the Mangle through Environmental Management Practice
  • A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development
  • The Docile Body of the Scientist
  • Part 3. Theory
  • The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics
  • Ontological Dance: A Dialogue between Heidegger and Pickering
  • References
  • About the Contributors
  • Index