EGENIS book launch: "Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene " Prof Andrew Pickering (University of Exeter) with Prof Andrew Barry (UCL)
Egenis book launch
In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World, Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a pattern that he calls acting-with the world. In contrast to our usual practice of acting on the world, acting-with foregrounds nonhuman or more-than-human agency and aims to attune our practices to the propensities of nature.
| An Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences seminar | |
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| Date | 2 June 2025 |
| Time | 15:30 to 17:00 |
| Place | Hybrid |
Event details
Pickering explores examples of acting-with from around the globe, including flood control on the Mississippi River, ecosystem restoration on the Colorado River, the Room for the River project and rewilding in the Netherlands, natural farming in Japan, Aboriginal fire techniques in Australia, and Amazonian shamanism. Pickering argues that acting-with intimately and gracefully plugs us into nature, undercuts the Anthropocene from below, and offers a constructive approach to addressing otherwise intractable wicked problems.
Read more including Preface and introductory chapter.
Venue Byrne House (spaces limited)
Virtual via Zoom
Free to attend. Register here
