Pragmatogonies. A Mythical Account of How Humans and Non-humans Swap Properties
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1994
In Humans and Others: the Concept of « Agency” and its attribution special issue of American Behavioral Sciences, Malcolm Ashmore (editor), vol.37, n°6, pp.791-808 [third modified part of Article (54)]
Abstract
In a special issue devoted to human-non-human attribution, it uses the former paper to show that the two extreme positions of humans and non-humans are devoid of meaning and should be replaced, instead, by the exchange of properties, competences and performances. There is no sense in which a human or a technique can be said to exist.
