Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene

by Andrew Pickering

In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World, Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a pattern which he calls acting-with the world. In contrast to our usual practice of acting on the world, acting-with foregrounds nonhuman or more-than-human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478028300
• ISBN13: 9781478028307
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.