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An Inquiry into Modes of Existence

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The article was published on 2013-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 255 citations till now.

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Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene

Bruno Latour
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the distribution between what is inert object and what is made of talking subjects does not do justice to science nor to literature nor, of course, to politics, and an effort to describe a relation with agency that focuses not on their characters (humans or nonhumans, animated or deanimated) but rather on their common source is made.
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An Ontology for Strongly Sustainable Business Models: Defining an Enterprise Framework Compatible With Natural and Social Science

TL;DR: A framework of strongly sustainable business model propositions and principles are presented as findings from a transdisciplinary review of the literature and an ontology that enables the description of successful stronglyustainable business models that resolves weaknesses and includes functionally necessary relationships is introduced.
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Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique

TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic and theoretical critique of ontological anthropology is presented, which provides an empirical counterweight to what the ontological turn celebrates of Native worlds and what it rejects of modernity.
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Sticky lives: slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse how life is stuck together and pulled apart in the British domestic garden, drawing on life history interviews and ‘show me your garden’ walking tours with experienced gardeners.
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Community-Based Design Research: Learning Across Generations and Strategic Transformations of Institutional Relations Toward Axiological Innovations

TL;DR: The authors argue for cultivating axiological innovations in research and interventions, including critical historicity, inter-generational learning, and strategic transformations of institutional relations, drawing from their experiences in community based design research.