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Andrew Pickering with his term ‘dance of agency’ helps us think about other ways of being in the world, a new perspective on being in the environment | Andrew Pickering with his term ‘dance of agency’ helps us think about other ways of being in the world, a new perspective on being in the environment different from that of the conventional natural and social sciences. | ||
His basic idea is that we can understand the world as built from consequential performative actions and reactions between people and things, the human and the nonhuman. “ Everything we need is there in nature already, and that we can latch onto it directly and performatively instead of going through long detours of cognition”. Agents here are all the small parts of the world of performances and becomings, by no means the center of it. We are agents, but so are rocks and stones, cats. “The world is full of agents which can interfere with one another consequentially but without any sense of control.” | His basic idea is that we can understand the world as built from consequential performative actions and reactions between people and things, the human and the nonhuman. “ Everything we need is there in nature already, and that we can latch onto it directly and performatively instead of going through long detours of cognition”. Agents here are all the small parts of the world of performances and becomings, by no means the center of it. We are agents, but so are rocks and stones, cats. “The world is full of agents which can interfere with one another consequentially but without any sense of control.” | ||