John Law / Annemarie Mol

Complexities

Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
Herausgeber: Mol, Annemarie; Law, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.

Produktdetails

• Science and Cultural Theory
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328469
• ISBN-10: 0822328461
• Artikelnr.: 21938892

Autorenporträt

John Law and Annemarie Mol, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

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