Week 12: Among many others
ANTH 3608: Becoming cyborgs—Technology and society (Semester 2,
2025)
October 31, 2025
Main reading: Pickering (2024)
Other reading: Pickering (2025)
Notes
This week is reserved for a topic to be determined. It is an opportunity to take stock of where we’ve been and to pursue any remaining loose ends.
Keywords
subjectivity
Learning outcomes
- Be able to state one’s own position on the network paradigm in anthropology, and to identify its continuity with other approaches as well as its contrast
References
Pickering, Andrew. 2024. “What Is Agency? A View from Science
Studies and Cybernetics.” Biological Theory 19 (1):
16–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-023-00437-1.
———. 2025. Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.