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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