
Mangle of Practice
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Mangle of Practice
- 1.1 Science as Practice and Culture
- 1.2 Representation and Performativity
- 1.3 Agency and Emergence
- 1.4 The Mangle of Practice
- 1.5 More on the Mangle
- Part One: Instantiations
- 2. Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber
- 2.1 Building the Bubble Chamber
- 2.2 The Mangle and Material Agency
- 2.3 The Mangle and Intent
- 2.4 The Mangle and the Social
- 2.5 Actors, Interests, and Constraints
- 3. Facts: The Hunting of the Quark
- 3.1 The Hunting of the Quark
- 3.2 Emergence and Posthumanism in Empirical Practice
- 3.3 Multiplicity, Heterogeneity, and Association
- 3.4 Representational Chains
- 3.5 Discipline
- 4. Concepts: Constructing Quaternions
- 4.1 Disciplinary Agency
- 4.2 From Complex Numbers to Triplets
- 4.3 Constructing Quaternions
- 4.4 Concepts and the Mangle
- 4.5 Science and the Mangle
- 4.6 Postscript: Mathematics, Metaphysics, and the Social
- 5. Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools
- 5.1 Numerically Controlled Machine Tools
- 5.2 The Mangle and the Social
- 5.3 The Mangle, Social Theory, and Limits
- Part Two: Articulations
- 6. Living in the Material World
- 6.1 Realism
- 6.2 Incommensurability
- 6.3 Knowledge and Us
- 6.4 Objectivity
- 6.5 Relativity
- 6.6 Historicity
- 7. Through the Mangle
- 7.1. Antidiscipline: A New Synthesis
- 7.2 Cultural Studies and the Mangle
- 7.3 Performativity and Historiography: The Big Picture
- 7.4 Macromangling
- 7.5 Postscript: Nonstandard Agency
- 7.6 Postscript: The TOE Mangle
- References
- Index
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