Event overview
CSISP Salon with Jennifer Gabrys
23rd April 2013, 4.00-5.30pm in WT1204
“Ecology of Practices, Ecology of Abstraction, and Etho-Ecology: Thinking through Surrounding(s)”
This is an invitation to CSISP members and Sociology PhDs to join us for the next CSISP Salon led by Jennifer Gabrys.
In her writings in relation to Whitehead and on the history and philosophy of science, Isabelle Stengers makes frequent use of the term “ecology” to variously capture the connections, surroundings, habitat and environments within and through which thought develops, lives and makes experience “vivid.” Here is an ostensibly scientific term that has gained traction as a more conceptual and poetic device, at once referring to concern for environments, while abstracting connections within environments as a device for making relations more evident as integral to what thinking is and does. This CSISP salon will consider the type of work that ecology does as an abstraction, and will discuss whether or how it might be revised to fuel, as Whitehead suggests, the “locomotion of ideas.”
Readings:
Isabelle Stengers, “A New Epoch?” in Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts, trans. Michael Chase (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011 [2002]), pages 123-141.
Isabelle Stengers, “Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices,” Cultural Studies Review 11, no. 1 (2005), 183-196.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2013 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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