Complexities : social studies of knowledge practices
Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.
295 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780822328315, 9780822328469, 0822328313, 0822328461
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Complexities: An Introduction / Annemarie Mol and John Law Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences / Chunglin Kwa Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an “Equipped” Humanity / Laurent Thevenot On Space and Depth / Marilyn Strathern On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism, and Aircraft Design / John Law In the Middle of the Network / Andrew Barry When Elephants Stand for Competing Philosophies of Nature: Amboseli National Park, Kenya / Charis Thompson Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity / Michel Callon Cutting Surgeons, Walking Patients: Some Complexities Involved in Comparing / Annemarie Mol The Disposal of Fear: Childhood, Trauma, and Complexity / Nick Lee and Steven D. Brown Contributors Index