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"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 anthrop...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Enfield, N. J., 1966- (Editor), Kockelman, Paul (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Series:Foundations of human interaction.
Subjects:
Semiotics > Psychological aspects.
Communication > Psychological aspects.
Human behavior.
Cognition.
Psycholinguistics.
Communication > Aspect psychologique.
Comportement humain.
Psycholinguistique.
human behavior.
cognition.
psycholinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Cognition
Communication > Psychological aspects
Human behavior
Psycholinguistics
Semiotics > Psychological aspects
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Distributed Agency; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor Preface; Editors' Preface; List of Contributors; Part One: Agency as Flexible and Accountable Causality; 1. Elements of Agency; 2. Distribution of Agency; 3. Gnomic Agency; 4. Semiotic Agency; Part Two: Agency of Institutions and Infrastructure; 5. Agency in State Agencies; 6. Upending Infrastructure in Times of Revolt; Part Three: Language and Agency; 7. Brain-​to-​Brain Interfaces and the Role of Language in Distributing Agency; 8. Requesting as a Means for Negotiating Distributed Agency; 9. Social Agency and Grammar
  • 10. Distributed Agency and Action under the Radar of AccountabilityPart Four: Economy and Agency; 11. Distributed Agency and Debt in the Durational Ethics of Responsibility; 12. Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed Accounts; Part Five: Distributing Agency within Selves and Species; 13. Distribution of Agency across Body and Self; 14. Distributed Agency in Ants; Part Six: Social Bonding Through Embodied Agency; 15. Group Exercise and Social Bonding; 16. Social Bonding Through Dance and 'Musiking'; Part Seven: Agency and Infancy
  • 17. Timescales for Understanding the Agency of Infants and Caregivers18. Movement Synchrony, Joint Actions, and Collective Agency in Infancy; Part Eight: The Agency of Materiality; 19. The Agency of the Dead; 20. Distributed Agency in Play; 21. Contingency and the Semiotic Mediation of Distributed Agency; Part Nine: The Place of Agency; 22. Place and Extended Agency; 23. How Agency Is Distributed Through Installations; Part Ten: From Cooperation to Deception and Disruption; 24. Cooperation and Social Obligations; 25. Deception as Exploitative Social Agency
  • 26. Disrupting Agents, Distributing Agency; Author Index; Subject Index.