On Models and Examples: Engineers and Bricoleurs in the Anthropocene

• Autores: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 20, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Patchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications), págs. 296-308
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper advances a heuristic distinction between “model” (in the Geertzian sense of “model-for”) and “example” as contrasting modes of articulating thought and action in the Anthropocene. I argue that the distinction is helpful in understanding the ontological presuppositions of geo-engineering as a technopolitical fix. Finally, I draw the outlines of a notion of “ontological anarchism” as the proper meta-mode of existence of the Anthropocene.