The Insistence of Possibles
Towards a Speculative Pragmatism Isabelle Stengers Speculative thinking, as we seek to inherit it, is expressed for the first time, with the greatest accuracy, in Alfred North Whitehead’s exhortation “Philosophy […]
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Reading Group: ‘A World of Many Worlds’ (2018)
A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science’s philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds.
Resisting the Coming Barbarism
Isabelle Stengers’ book, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (2015), is available for free as a .pdf download here. Below is an official description of the book: There has […]
the Urgency to Think and Feel
“Naming is a serious, that is, a pragmatic business, when it means giving to what is named the power to induce thinking and feeling in a particular way.” Isabelle Stengers, […]
Isabelle Stengers – The Cosmopolitical Proposal (pdf)
From Isabelle Stengers’ ‘The Cosmopolitical Proposal’ (pdf): How can I present a proposal intended not to say what is, or what ought to be, but to provoke thought; one that […]
Isabelle Stengers on Prototypes
” The reliability of …science’s results is relative to experimentally purified, well controlled laboratory experiments. And competent objections are competent only with regards to such controlled environments. Which means that […]
Isabelle Stengers and Donna Haraway Sawyer Seminar Audio
Stengers and Haraway throwing it down.
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