The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science Pickering Andrew
The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science Pickering Andrew This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding…
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The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science Pickering Andrew
This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge.Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors-social, technological, conceptual, and natural-that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one another-"mangled" together in unforeseeable ways that are shaped by the contingencies of culture, time, and place.Situating material as well as human agency in their larger cultural context, Pickering uses