Distributed Agency

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Foundations of Human Interaction

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Beskrivning

Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the latest thinking about the distributed nature of agency: what it's like, what are its conditions of possibility, and what are its consequences. The book's 25 chapters are written by a wide range of scholars, from anthropology, biology, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, geography, law, economics, and sociology. While each chapter takes up different materials using different methods, they all chart relations between the key elements of agency: intentionality, causality, flexibility and accountability. Each chapter seeks to explain how and why such relations are distributed-not just across individuals, but also across bodies and minds, people and things, spaces and times. To do this, the authors work through empirical studies of particular cases, while also offering reviews and syntheses of key ideas from the authors' respective research traditions. Our goals with this collection of essays are to assemble insights from new research on the anatomy of human agency, to address divergent framings of the issues from different disciplines, and to suggest directions for new debates and lines of research. We hope that it will be a resource for researchers working on allied topics, and for students learning about the elements of human-specific modes of shared action, from causality, intentionality, and personhood to ethics, punishment, and accountability.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-09
Mått:236 x 160 x 20 mm
Vikt:556 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Foundations of Human Interaction
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190457204

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N.J. Enfield is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Paul Kockelman teaches linguistic anthropology at Yale University.

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i. Contributorsii. Preface Part One: Agency as Flexible and Accountable CausalityChapter 1. Elements of Agency N.J. EnfieldChapter 2. Distribution of Agency N.J. EnfieldChapter 3. Gnomic Agency Paul KockelmanChapter 4. Semiotic Agents Paul Kockelman Part Two: Agency of Institutions and InfrastructureChapter 5. Agency in State Agencies Anya Bernstein6. Upending Infrastructure in Revolutionary Egypt Julia Elyachar Part Three: Language and Agency7. On Brain-to-Brain Interfaces, Distributed Agency and Language Mark Dingemanse 8. Requesting as a Means for Negotiating Distributed Agency Simeon Floyd9. Social Agency and Grammar Giovanni Rossi and Jörg Zinken10. Distributed Agency and Action under the Radar of Accountability Jack Sidnell Part Four: Economy and Agency11. Distributed Agency and Debt in the Durational Ethics of Responsibility Jane I. Guyer12. Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed Accounts Bill Maurer Part Five: Distributing Agency within Selves and Species 13. Distribution of Agency across Body and Self Ruth Parry14. Distributed Agency in Ants Patrizia D'ettore Part Six: Social Bonding through Embodied Agency15. Group Exercise and Social Bonding Emma Cohen16. Social Bonding Through Dance and 'Musiking' Bronwyn Tarr Part Seven: Agency and Infancy17. Time Scales for Understanding the Agency of Infants and Caregivers Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi 18. Movement Synchrony, Joint Actions and Collective Agency in Infancy Bahar Tunçgenç Part Eight: The Agency of Materiality19. The Agency of the Dead Zoe Crossland 20. Distributed Agency in Play Benjamin Smith 21. Contingency and the Semiotic Mediation of Distributed Agency Eitan Wilf Part Nine: The Place of Agency22. Place and Extended AgencyPaul C. Adams 23. How Agency is Distributed through InstallationsSaadi Lahlou Part Ten: From Cooperation to Deception and DisruptionChapter 24. Cooperation and Social ObligationsDavid P. Schweikard Chapter 25. Deception as Exploitative Social AgencyRadu Umbres Chapter 26. Disrupting Agents, Distributing AgencyCharles H. P. Zuckerman