I argue that American pragmatism can be understood as an effort to recuperate a sense of the animality thought and thus example what Deleuze Guattari call “becoming animal” within field philosophy. At issue in this becoming animal is influence Charles Peirce’s theory abduction on history from its origins more recent reception Jacques Derrida’s (pra)grammatology Brian Massumi’s speculative pragm...

The economic performances of the Eurozone look weaker than those of the United States over the period 1999-2006, in spite of the fact that the former applies more thoroughly the 'new macroeconomics' governance rules concerning public deficits and inflation control. The literature emphasizes Alan Greenspan's pragmatism when discussing the relative success of the Fed, but the reasons why pragmati...

This is a paper to the panel “Conceptualizing the workpractice context of IS” at the ALOIS*2006 conference. It is a position statement concerning workpractice theory as a practical theory. Practice theory is concerned with workpractices and as such an example of “referential pragmatism”. A practical theory intends to be of value to practices and such a theory is seen as an example of “functiona...