Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge PracticesJohn Law, Annemarie Mol Duke University Press, 10 июн. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 304 Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer—particularly within the field of science studies—approaches to a theory of complexity, and at the same time a theoretical introduction to the topic. Indeed, they examine not only ways of relating to complexity but complexity in practice. Individual essays study complexity from a variety of perspectives, addressing market behavior, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, roadbuilding, meteorology, the science of complexity itself, and the psychology of childhood trauma. Other topics include complex wholes (holism) in the sciences, moral complexity in seemingly amoral endeavors, and issues relating to the protection of African elephants. With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, and ebbs and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, France, and the meetings of the European Commission, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society. Contributors. Andrew Barry, Steven D. Brown, Michel Callon, Chunglin Kwa, John Law, Nick Lee, Annemarie Mol, Marilyn Strathern, Laurent Thévenot, Charis Thompson |
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... tion to investigate how different modes of ordering structure what goes on there . Organizing , he suggested , depends partly on ordering things — words , but also materials , desks , paperwork , computer systems — in an entrepre ...
... tion to investigate how different modes of ordering structure what goes on there . Organizing , he suggested , depends partly on ordering things — words , but also materials , desks , paperwork , computer systems — in an entrepre ...
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... tion work : files that go from one floor of the building to another , routines , conversations , memos , case conferences , operations . In practice , if a body hangs together , this is not because its coherence precedes the knowledge ...
... tion work : files that go from one floor of the building to another , routines , conversations , memos , case conferences , operations . In practice , if a body hangs together , this is not because its coherence precedes the knowledge ...
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... tion no longer is , Do we simplify or do we accept complexity ? It becomes in- stead a matter of determining which simplification or simplifications we will attend to and create and , as we do this , of attending to what they foreground ...
... tion no longer is , Do we simplify or do we accept complexity ? It becomes in- stead a matter of determining which simplification or simplifications we will attend to and create and , as we do this , of attending to what they foreground ...
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... tion — between the codependent cultural artifacts of the general ( what children do as they develop “ in general ” ) and the particular ( the actions of this particular child , in this case a three - year - old frightened by the ...
... tion — between the codependent cultural artifacts of the general ( what children do as they develop “ in general ” ) and the particular ( the actions of this particular child , in this case a three - year - old frightened by the ...
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... tion was not swallowed whole . " I have arranged the facts , not successively in the order in which they have presented themselves , but according to the relations which they have between themselves , " writes Alexander von Humboldt in ...
... tion was not swallowed whole . " I have arranged the facts , not successively in the order in which they have presented themselves , but according to the relations which they have between themselves , " writes Alexander von Humboldt in ...
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Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an Equipped Humanity | 53 |
On Space and Depth | 88 |
Complexity Formalism and Aircraft Design | 116 |
In the Middle of the Network | 142 |
Amboseli National Park Kenya | 166 |
Writing and Rewriting Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity | 191 |
Some Complexities Involved in Comparing | 218 |
Childhood Trauma and Complexity | 258 |
Contributors | 281 |
Index | 283 |
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