On Models and Examples: Engineers and Bricoleurs in the Anthropocene.

Autor: Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo
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Zdroj: Current Anthropology; Aug2019 Supplement, Vol. 60 Issue S20, pS296-S308, 13p
Abstrakt: This paper advances a heuristic distinction between "model" (in the Geertzian sense of "model-for") and "example" as contrasting modes of articulating thought and action in the Anthropocene. I argue that the distinction is helpful in understanding the ontological presuppositions of geo-engineering as a technopolitical fix. Finally, I draw the outlines of a notion of "ontological anarchism" as the proper meta-mode of existence of the Anthropocene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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