Material agency: A theoretical framework for ascribing agency to material culture

Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 206-220

  Kirchhoff, Michael David ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Affordances; Agency; Material culture; Material hermeneutics; Relational and asymmetrical ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874304763     PISSN: 01617249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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