Vierge et le neutrino. English

Virgin Mary and the neutrino : reality in trouble / Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Andrew Goffey.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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"In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and appearing here in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through the way they diverge from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from Dewey to Deleuze, she develops what she calls an "ecology of practices" into a capacious and heterogeneous perspective that is inclusive of cultural and political forces but not reducible to them. Stengers first advocates for an approach to sciences that would emphasize the way each should be situated by the kind of relationship demanded by what it attempts to address. This approach turns away from the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary-like the opposition between the neutrino and Virgin Mary. An ecology of practices stimulates instead an appetite for thinking reality not as an arbiter but as what we can relate with through the generation of diverging concerns and obligations"-- Provided by publisher.

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Print version: Stengers, Isabelle. Vierge et le neutrino. English. Virgin Mary and the neutrino. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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April 30, 2024

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