Professor Andrew Pickering
Publications
Books
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future, Chicago, IL, USA, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Pickering ,A ,Guzik K (eds) The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society and Becoming, Durham, NC, USA, Duke University Press, 2008.
Kybernetik und Neue Ontologien, Berlin, Germany, Merve Verlag, 2007.
The mangle of practice, University Of Chicago Press, 1995.
Science as practice and culture, University Of Chicago Press, 1992.
Constructing quarks, University Of Chicago Press, 1984.
Chapters
Ontology and Antidisciplinarity, in Barry A (eds) Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences, London: Routledge, 2011
The Politics of Theory: Producing Another World, with some thoughts on Latour, in Healy C (eds) Assembling Culture, Routledge, 2011, 190-205
After Dualism, in Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: III Dualism, SUNY Press, 2010, 49-104
Material Culture and the Dance of Agency, in Hicks D,Beaudry M (eds) Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 191-208
Cybernetics as Nomad Science, in Jensen CB,Rodje K (eds) Deleuzian Intersections in Science, Technology and Anthropology, Oxford: Berghahn, 2009, 155-162
The Dance of Agency, in Cayley D (eds) Ideas on the Nature of Science, Goose Lane Editions, 2009, 81-91
Cybernetics, in Olsen J,Pedersen S,Hendricks V (eds) Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Technology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, 118-122
New Ontologies, in Pickering A,Guzik K (eds) The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society and Becoming, Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2008, 1-14
Preface, in Pickering A,Guzik K (eds) The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society and Becoming, Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2008, vii-xiv
Culture, Science Studies and Technoscience, in Bennett T,Frow J (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, London: SAGE, 2008, 291-310
Ontologisches Theater: Gordon Pask, Kybernetik und die Künste’ [‘Science as Theatre: Gordon Pask, Cybernetics and the Arts’, in Schramm H,Schwarte L,Lazardzig J (eds) Spektakuläre Experimente: Praktiken der Evidenzproduktion im 17. Jahrhunder, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006, 454-476
‘Commentary on the Shape of Experiment, in Kursell J,Schmidgen H (eds) The Shape of Experiments, Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2006, 233-235
Concepts and the Mangle of Practice: Constructing Quaternions, in Hersh R (eds) 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics, New York: Springer, 2006, 250-288
‘A Gallery of Monsters: Cybernetics and Self-Organisation, 1940-1970, in Franchi S,Güzeldere G (eds) Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds: Artificial Intelligence from Automata to Cyborgs, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, 229-245
‘Space—The Final Frontier, in Schramm H,Schwarte L,Lazardzig J (eds) Collection, Laboratory, Theater, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2005, 1-8
‘Mit der Schildkröte gegen die Moderne: Gehirn, Technologie und Unterhaltung bei Grey Walter,’ transl. by Gustav Rossler, in Schmidgen H,Geimer P,Dierig S (eds) .), Kultur im Experiment, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2004, 102-119
On Becoming: Imagination, Metaphysics and the Mangle, in Ihde ID,Selinger E (eds) Chasing Technoscience: Matrix of Materiality, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003, 96-116
Interview with Andrew Pickering, in Ihde D,Selinger E (eds) Chasing Technoscience: Matrix of Materiality, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003, 83-95
Constructing Quaternions: On the Analysis of Conceptual Practice, in Pickering A (eds) La Scienzia come Pratica e Cultura, Edizioni di Comunità, 2001, 107-138
‘Practice and Posthumanism: Social Theory and a History of Agency, in Schatzki IT,Cetina KK,Savigny EV (eds) The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, New York: Routledge, 2001, 163-174
‘Science as Alchemy, in Scott IJW,Keates D (eds) Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of Interpretive Social Science, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 194-206
From Science as Knowledge to Science as Practice, in Pickering TA (eds) La Scienzia come Pratica e Cultura, Turin: Edizioni di Comunità, 2001, 3-29
Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains and Cybernetics in the Work of W. Ross Ashby, in Asaro P,Pickering A,Wedge J (eds) Synthetic Brains, Cybernetics and Systems: Essays on the Work of W. Ross Ashby,
Brains, Selves and the World in the History of Cybernetics, in Grassie W (eds) Transhumanism and Its Critics, Philadelphia: Metanexus Institute
Conferences
After Dualism,
Ontological Theatre. Gordon Pask, Cybernetics and the Art., , 2006, 454-476
The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Informatics, , 2004, 29-38
Journal articles
Cyborg Spirituality, Medical History, vol. 55, 2011, 349-353
The Politics of Theory: Producing Another World, with Some Thoughts on Latour, Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 2, 2009, 197-212
Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains and Cybernetics in the Work of W. Ross Ashby, International Journal of General Systems, vol. 28, 2009, 213-230
'Ventures with Vultures,' Essay review of Steven Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), Isis, vol. 100, 2009, 868-871
Beyond Design: Cybernetics, Biological Computers and Hylozoism, Synthese, vol. 168, 2009, 469-491 DOI
Emergence and Synthesis: Science Studies, Cybernetics and Antidisciplinarity, Technoetic Arts, vol. 6 (2), 2008, 127-133
Brains, Selves and the World in the History of Cybernetics, Global Spiral, vol. 9 (3), 2008 Publisher Website
Cyborg History and the World War II Regime, Jianghai Academic Journal, vol. 6, 2005
‘Decentring Sociology: Synthetic Dyes and Social Theory, Perspectives on Science, vol. 13, no. Technoscientific Productivity, special issue, 2005, 352-405
‘From Dyes to Iraq: A Reply to Jonathan Harwood, of Perspectives on Science, vol. 13, no. Technoscientific Productivity, special issue, 2005, 416-425
The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Informatics, in Raul Espejo (ed.), Tribute to Stafford Beer, Kybernetes, vol. 33, 2004, 499-521
Cybernetics and the Mangle: Ashby, Beer and Pask, Social Studies of Science, vol. 32, 2002, 413-437
‘To Epistemics and Beyond, Technoscience: Newsletter of the Society for Social Studies of Science, vol. 15, no. 2, 2002, 19-22
Reading the Structure, Perspectives on Science, vol. 9, 2001, 499-510
Collected essays, Register of Critical Theory of Society
Others
Interview in 'Five Questions in the Philosophy of Technology', , 2007, 159-170
