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Rather than a "logical assertion," Whitehead described a proposition as a "lure for feeling" for a collectivity to come. The unique contributions in Propositions in the Making articulate the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world.
List of contents
Contents
Abbreviations
Editor's Preamble
Part I. The Making of Propositions
1 For a Whiteheadian Laboratory: How Do you Make Yourself a Propostion?
Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
Part II. Thinking Propositions
2 Knowing Whitehead?
Michael Halewood
3 Space, Time, and the Deity of Peace
Roland Faber
4 Designing Propositions
A.J. Nocek
5 An Internet of Actual Occasions: Notes Toward Understanding 21st Century Tendencies in Media, Communications, and World
Andrew Murphie
6 Thinking with Whitehead about Existential Risk
James Burton
7 Witness at the Slaughterhouse: Seeking Conflicting Propositions for Alternate Futures
Brianne Donaldson
8 Communities Keep the Dream Alive as Proposition?
Timothy Murphy
9 Geology Not Chronology: Problems of Naming in Education
Matthew Goulish
Part III. Experimenting With Propositions
10 The Question: How Do We Make Ourselves a Proposition?
Susanne Valerie [Granzer]
11. Choreographic Propositions: Grasping the environmental excess that feels like nothing, yet
Diego Gil
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Roland Faber; Michael Halewood and Andrew M. Davis - Contributions by James Burton; Brianne Donaldson; Diego Gil; Susanne Valerie Granzer; Matthew Goulish; Erin Manning; Brian Massumi; Andrew Murphie; Tim Murphy and AJ Nocek
Summary
Rather than a “logical assertion,” Whitehead described a proposition as a “lure for feeling” for a collectivity to come. The unique contributions in Propositions in the Making articulate the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world.
