Andrew Pickering is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Philosophy at Exeter University and author of
This chapter examines an extended example of poiesis, an ecosystem restoration project on the Colorado River. Poiesis appears here as a process of experimentation and adaptation centered on dances of agency between dam operators and the river’s ecosystem, leading to a regular choreography of agency synchronizing the actions of dam operators and rivers. The chapter reviews function of scientific modeling and a cybernetic analysis of this example is sketched out.
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