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  1. For Stengers’ treatment of Prigogine see Cosmopolitics II, Chapter V, Life and Artifice, pp. 105–204. For a more detailed earlier collaboration between the two, (see Prigogine and Stengers, 1984).

  2. Stengers makes this claim about Prigogine in Cosmopolitics II, p. 151.

  3. Stengers, Cosmopolitics II, pp. 207–233.

  4. For an intriguing account of this phenomenon, see the treatment of Badiou and structuralism in Bryant (2011), p. 243 ff.

  5. I have criticized this tendency in the work of James Ladyman and Ross, among others. See Harman (2010).

  6. I borrow the term ‘duomining’ from the credit card industry, where it refers to the simultaneous use of data and text mining. See Harman (2013).

  7. Stengers is quoting here from page 61 of Feibleman (1954).

  8. The ‘human scientists’ part is slightly unfair, of course, since Stengers like Latour tries to reinterpret words such as ‘negotiate’ in non-anthropocentric terms (see her remarks on the body’s twofold treatment of water in Cosmopolitics II, p. 221). But the same ontological problems occur even if we allow non-humans to join humans in using their own purposes to carve a largely inarticulate world into pieces. See my remarks about how a global ‘relationism’ is only marginally better than a human-centered ‘correlationism’ in Harman (2009).

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Harman, G. Stengers on emergence. BioSocieties 9, 99–104 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2013.43

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