Accidental Agents
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Accidental Agents
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Author : Martin Crowley
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Accidental Agents written by Martin Crowley and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Philosophy categories.
In the Anthropocene, the fact that human activity is enmeshed with the existence and actions of every kind of other being is inescapable. As a result, the planetary ecological crisis has brought forth an urgent need to rethink understandings of human action. One response holds that the transformations necessary to tackle today’s crises will emerge from the distinctive capacity of human beings to transcend their environment. Another school of thought calls for seeing action as composite, produced by distributed networks of human and nonhuman agents. Yet the first of these is open to charges of human exceptionalism, while the second, according to its critics, lacks effective political traction. Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of political agency is necessary to break this impasse. Engaging with thinkers such as Bruno Latour, Bernard Stiegler, and Catherine Malabou, Crowley proposes an original account of agency as both distributed and decisive. Challenging the prevailing view of agency as exclusively human, he explores how a politics that incorporates nonhuman agency can intervene in the real world, examining timely issues such as climate-related migration and digital-algorithmic politics. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.
Agents Without Empire
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Author : Antónia Szabari
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2024-03-05
Agents Without Empire written by Antónia Szabari and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their flexible worldviews and interest in the difference of non-French cultures both inside and outside of Europe. As a result, this period in French cultural history has come to be valued as an exceptional era of cultural opening toward others. Agents without Empire shows that such a celebration is, at the very least, problematic. Szabari argues that before the rise of the French colonial empire, medieval categories of race based on the redemption story were recast through accounts of the Ottoman Empire that were made accessible, in a sudden and unprecedented manner, to agents of the French crown. Spying performed by Frenchmen in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century permeated French culture in large part because those who spied also worked as knowledge producers, propagandists, and artists. The practice changed what it meant to be cultured and elite by creating new avenues of race- and gender-specific consumption for French and European men that affected all areas of sophisticated culture including literature, politics, prints, dressing, personal hygiene, and leisure. Agents without Empire explores race making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race making in early modern Europe.
Teleology
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Author : Jeffrey K. McDonough
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-08
Teleology written by Jeffrey K. McDonough and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-08 with Philosophy categories.
Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things. It is the belief that, for example, salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, and that bears have claws for the sake of catching fish. This volume takes up the intuitive yet puzzling concept of teleology as it has been treated by philosophers from ancient times to the present day. It includes nine main chapters centered on the treatment of teleology in Plato, Aristotle, the Islamic medieval tradition, the Jewish medieval tradition, the Latin medieval tradition, the early modern era, Kant, Hegel, and contemporary philosophy. Each chapter probes central questions such as: is teleology inherent in its subjects or is it imposed on them from the outside? Does teleology necessarily involve intentionality, that is, a subject's cognizing some end, goal, or purpose? What is the scope of teleology? Is it, for example, applicable to elements and animals, or only to rational beings? Finally, is teleology explanatory? When we say that salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, have we explained why they swim upstream? When we say that bears have claws for catching fish, have we explained why bears have claws? The philosophical discussions of the main chapters are enlivened and contextualized by four reflection pieces exploring the implications of teleology in medicine, art, poetry, and music.
Vital Statistics Of The United States
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Vital Statistics Of The United States written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with United States categories.
Departments Of Labor And Health Education And Welfare Appropriations For 1978 National Institutes Of Health
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Departments Of Labor And Health Education And Welfare Appropriations For 1978 National Institutes Of Health written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Umatilla Depot Activity Disposal Of Chemical Agents And Munitions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Umatilla Depot Activity Disposal Of Chemical Agents And Munitions written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Subjective Agency And Poststructuralism
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Author : Cillian Ó Fathaigh
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-12-02
Subjective Agency And Poststructuralism written by Cillian Ó Fathaigh and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-02 with Philosophy categories.
Poststructuralism has long been acknowledged to offer a radical critique of the foundational subject as a precursor to affirming a constituted subject. Its detractors have however held that the resultant position cannot offer a coherent account of agency (strong version) or, alternatively, that while it may be able to account for non-subjective agency, it is unable to develop a coherent explanation for subjective agency (weak version). Somewhat strangely, this issue has been largely ignored by commentators predisposed to poststructuralist thought. In contrast, this volume focuses on the works of Judith Butler, Cornelius Castoriadis, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Catherine Malabou, to show that the question of the subject is a key one for many poststructuralist thinkers, that they are aware of the problematic status of agency that arises from their decentering of the foundational subject, and that they offer heterogeneous responses to it. Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism will therefore be an invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students interested in philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, critical theory, history of ideas, feminist theory, and cultural studies.
2018 Icd 10 Cm Standard Edition E Book
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Author : Carol J. Buck
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Release Date : 2017-10-13
2018 Icd 10 Cm Standard Edition E Book written by Carol J. Buck and has been published by Elsevier Health Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-13 with Medical categories.
- Updated 2018 Official Code set reflects the latest ICD-10 codes needed for diagnosis coding. - NEW! Key terms are highlighted making code selection faster and easier.
Departments Of Labor And Health Education And Welfare Appropriations For 1978
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Departments Of Labor And Health Education And Welfare Appropriations For 1978 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1999-11-24
Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-24 with Science categories.
This report reviews the status of the U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) operations at Tooele, Utah, with respect to previous recommendations and observations made by the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee). The committee recognizes actions that have satisfied recommendations, identifies recommendations that require further action, and provides additional recommendations for improving the overall CSDP performance at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), Tooele, Utah, and other sites.