Andreas Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9106-9438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Porous fences and elephant agencies: Rethinking infrastructure in the Okavango Delta
Despite a recent surge of literature on infrastructure and space, infrastructure breakdown in many domains continues to be presented as the result of technical failure, neglect of maintenance, or human sabotage. Infrastructure breakdown is thus mostly cast as abnormal and as caused by deficient materials, lacking resources or disobedient humans, reproducing normative ideas that successful infrastructure should be stable in its environment and wor…
Equality of watt? The injustice of conflating goals and means in the global energy access agenda
The United Nations and the World Bank measure the progress in global energy access through the number of electrical connections and the Multi-Tier Framework respectively. Assessing universal energy access through availability and specific electrical parameters obscures how it is linked to other development themes and conceals the impact of electrification projects on local communities worldwide. The exclusion of adequacy as assessment parameter h…
Mining matters: Coloniality and the politics of the sustainable energy transition
Contemporary talk of sustainable energy transitions, green technologies, or green energy evokes environmentally friendly, benign and forward-looking policy and practice. Typically, such imaginations of a greener energy future avoid mention of the raw mineral realities of mining. To question these dominant policy framings, we use the analytical lens of coloniality to examine continuities, ruptures and expansions of extractive practices on differen…
Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976
Global foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control policy is largely based on nineteenth-century British ideas about the disease. This partiality risks creating the impression that these ideas of the disease are universal. In this article, therefore, we provincialise the notion of FMD by describing how veterinarians came to know the disease in colonial and postcolonial Botswana. Specifically, we focus on the 1960s and 1970s to write a postcolonial, more…
Sustaining fecundity: Artistic creation as care for life
Art is as old as human culture. For most of the time, art was part of an exchange between humans and the cosmic order. Art was meant as a gift to nourish the fecundity of life. Art was communication with ancestral creational powers — the invocation of a poetic space from which creation entered the material realm. This paper explores art as a way of tapping into the invisible forces of reality. I argue that humans can experience these forces as al…
The value of a Qaly towards the end of life and its determinants: Experimental evidence
Matters of perspective; Local visual expertise and natural history drawings in Java, 1820-1850
This essay examines how local draughtsmen using their visual expertise shaped natural historical knowledge production in colonial Indonesia in the early nineteenth century. The persons at the core of this essay are Tsing Wang Ho and Pieter van Oort, both draughtsmen who worked for the Natuurkundige Commissie voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Committee of Natural History of the Netherlands Indies). By zooming in on the Committee’s fieldwork in Java in the …
A New Political Sociology of Science
Die Botschaft der intimen Distanz: Animismus als ökologische Utopie
Historians Should Explore Rather Than Sticking with What They Know”: Interview with Professor Harold Cook, Brown University
Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age, published in 2007. The book investigates, among other things, the global dimension of scientific and medical knowledge-production in the seventeenth century. His most recent study, on the early life of Descartes, was published only a couple of weeks before we conducted this interview. It shifts the focus back to the history of Europe, with travel central to Descartes' development.…
Poetic Objectivity: Toward an Ethics of Aliveness
In this essay I will explore the possibility of an objective ecological ethics. To do this, I follow the embodied ethos of relationships: meaningful expression and mutual sharing occuring in living organisms and systems. Living beings on various levels of identity (cellular selves, individuals, and ecosystems) strive toward increased aliveness. They are self-healing, and generate meaningful relationships, all without the need or interference of h…
Notes on the Reviewing of Learned Websites, Digital Resources, and Tools
A ccording to advocates of the "computational turn," the job description of historians of sci- ence is about to change radically.Instead of rooting their research in carefully selected corpora of primary source material, and then using these sources to study how scientific knowledge has been produced, spread, and contested in a specific context, historians of the twentyfirst century can capitalize on a variety of digital resources and tools to sk…
Sein und Teilen: Eine Praxis Schöpferischer Existenz
Deep Physics
Feeling is the existential experience of being matter from the inside. Feeling entangles us with the whole, parallel to the entanglement between observer and observed described in modern physics. Understanding organisms as embodied feeling is the missing link to making sense of the weirdness of modern physics, particularly the fact that the ‘observer’ is always connected to the ‘objects’ described (so-called ‘entanglement’). In organisms, such en…
Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia. Gillian Maclaine and his Business Network, written by Knight, G. Roger
Roger G. Knight's empirically rich and analytically nuanced study on the Scottish entrepreneur and adventurer Gillian Maclaine (1798-1840) sheds fresh light on the role of the Indonesian Archipelago in wider networks of commerce and exchange in the early nineteenth century.By providing an in-depth reconstruction of Maclaine's life and business activities, the study analyzes how the merchant used his presence in Java to capitalize on the flow of c…
Of Whales and Dinosaur. The Story of Singapore’s Natural History Museum, written by Kevin Y.L. Tan
s history of Singapore's natural history museum is an informed addition to a growing body of studies on the history of biology in colonial and post-colonial Southeast Asia.Founded in 1874, the museum in Singapore gradually developed into a hub for biodiversity research and education in the Malay Peninsula.The museum, which is nowadays called Lee Kong Chian Natural History, holds around a million samples of prepared plants, animals, and minerals.T…
Bitter fruits of accumulation: The case of Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854)
This essay analyses the career of the German chemist and government functionary Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854) through the layered lens of governance and management. By conceptualizing governance as the historical result of the interaction between locally situated accumulation and management projects and the 'metropolitan' assessment of their value, it uses Reinwardt's experiences to shed fresh light on the idiosyncrasies through which E…
Von der fürsorglichen Bevormundung über die organisierte Unverantwortlichkeit zur professionsgestützten selbstbestimmten Teilhabe?: Beiträge zur Transformation des Gesundheits- und Sozialsystems nach …
You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle”. An Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel
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“I am an Indonesian of Chinese origin and am neither better nor worse than any other average Indonesian.” An Interview with Thee Kian Wie (b. 1935)
Thee Kian Wie is a prominent economic historian and economist in Indonesia who has known many of Indonesia’s leading economists personally. Despite his retirement in May 2000 and advanced age (74) he is still very active. He publishes several articles per year and visits his office at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences LIPI almost daily, provided he is not somewhere abroad or in Jakarta or somewhere else in Indonesia participating in or deliver…
Encountering the Netherlands Indies: Caspar G.C. Reinwardt's Field Trip to the East (1816–1822)
In the years after its foundation in 1814, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands witnessed the emergence of several new sites where natural history—the study of naming, describing and classifying plants, animals and minerals—was carried out. These new sites, such as the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum for Natural History), founded in 1820, the Rijksherbarium (National Herbarium) and the colonial site Nederlands-Indië (Nether…
Andreas Hepp und Martin Löffelholz (Hg.): Grundlagentexte zur transkulturellen Kommunikation
Joachim Renn, Jürgen Straub und Shingo Shimada (Hg.): Übersetzung als Medium des Kulturverstehens und sozialer Integration
Mimesis and Metaphor: The biosemiotic generation of meaning in Cassirer and Uexküll
In this paper I pursue the influences of Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics on the anthropology of Ernst Cassirer. I propose that Cassirer in his Philosophy of the Symbolic Forms has written a cultural semiotics which in certain core ideas is grounded on biosemiotic presuppositions, some explicit (as the “emotive basic ground” of experience), some more implicit. I try to trace the connecting lines to a biosemiotic approach with the goal of formulat…
Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality
A New Political Sociology of Science
Notes on the Reviewing of Learned Websites, Digital Resources, and Tools
A ccording to advocates of the "computational turn," the job description of historians of sci- ence is about to change radically.Instead of rooting their research in carefully selected corpora of primary source material, and then using these sources to study how scientific knowledge has been produced, spread, and contested in a specific context, historians of the twentyfirst century can capitalize on a variety of digital resources and tools to sk…
Mimesis and Metaphor: The biosemiotic generation of meaning in Cassirer and Uexküll
In this paper I pursue the influences of Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics on the anthropology of Ernst Cassirer. I propose that Cassirer in his Philosophy of the Symbolic Forms has written a cultural semiotics which in certain core ideas is grounded on biosemiotic presuppositions, some explicit (as the “emotive basic ground” of experience), some more implicit. I try to trace the connecting lines to a biosemiotic approach with the goal of formulat…
Feeling the signs: The origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas
This paper describes the semiotic approach to organism in two proto-biosemiotic thinkers, Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas. Both authors develop ideas that have become central terms of biosemiotics: the organism as subject, the realisation of the living as a closed circular self, the value concept, and, in the case of Langer, the concept of symbol. Langer tries to develop a theory of cultural symbolism based on a theory of organism as a self-real…
Cognition as expression: On the autopoietic foundations of an aesthetic theory of nature
This paper attempts to put forward an aesthetic theory of nature based on a biosemiotic description of the living, which in turn is derived from an autopoietic theory of organism (p. Varela). An autopoietic system's reaction to material constraints is the unfolding of a dimension of meaning. In the outward Gestalt of autopoietic systems, meaning appears as fonn, and as such it reveals itself in a sensually graspable manner. The mode of being of o…
You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle”. An Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Cognition as expression: On the autopoietic foundations of an aesthetic theory of nature
This paper attempts to put forward an aesthetic theory of nature based on a biosemiotic description of the living, which in turn is derived from an autopoietic theory of organism (p. Varela). An autopoietic system's reaction to material constraints is the unfolding of a dimension of meaning. In the outward Gestalt of autopoietic systems, meaning appears as fonn, and as such it reveals itself in a sensually graspable manner. The mode of being of o…
Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality
Feeling the signs: The origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas
This paper describes the semiotic approach to organism in two proto-biosemiotic thinkers, Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas. Both authors develop ideas that have become central terms of biosemiotics: the organism as subject, the realisation of the living as a closed circular self, the value concept, and, in the case of Langer, the concept of symbol. Langer tries to develop a theory of cultural symbolism based on a theory of organism as a self-real…
Mimesis and Metaphor: The biosemiotic generation of meaning in Cassirer and Uexküll
In this paper I pursue the influences of Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics on the anthropology of Ernst Cassirer. I propose that Cassirer in his Philosophy of the Symbolic Forms has written a cultural semiotics which in certain core ideas is grounded on biosemiotic presuppositions, some explicit (as the “emotive basic ground” of experience), some more implicit. I try to trace the connecting lines to a biosemiotic approach with the goal of formulat…
Andreas Hepp und Martin Löffelholz (Hg.): Grundlagentexte zur transkulturellen Kommunikation
Joachim Renn, Jürgen Straub und Shingo Shimada (Hg.): Übersetzung als Medium des Kulturverstehens und sozialer Integration
Encountering the Netherlands Indies: Caspar G.C. Reinwardt's Field Trip to the East (1816–1822)
In the years after its foundation in 1814, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands witnessed the emergence of several new sites where natural history—the study of naming, describing and classifying plants, animals and minerals—was carried out. These new sites, such as the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum for Natural History), founded in 1820, the Rijksherbarium (National Herbarium) and the colonial site Nederlands-Indië (Nether…
“I am an Indonesian of Chinese origin and am neither better nor worse than any other average Indonesian.” An Interview with Thee Kian Wie (b. 1935)
Thee Kian Wie is a prominent economic historian and economist in Indonesia who has known many of Indonesia’s leading economists personally. Despite his retirement in May 2000 and advanced age (74) he is still very active. He publishes several articles per year and visits his office at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences LIPI almost daily, provided he is not somewhere abroad or in Jakarta or somewhere else in Indonesia participating in or deliver…
You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle”. An Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Von der fürsorglichen Bevormundung über die organisierte Unverantwortlichkeit zur professionsgestützten selbstbestimmten Teilhabe?: Beiträge zur Transformation des Gesundheits- und Sozialsystems nach …
Bitter fruits of accumulation: The case of Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854)
This essay analyses the career of the German chemist and government functionary Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854) through the layered lens of governance and management. By conceptualizing governance as the historical result of the interaction between locally situated accumulation and management projects and the 'metropolitan' assessment of their value, it uses Reinwardt's experiences to shed fresh light on the idiosyncrasies through which E…
Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia. Gillian Maclaine and his Business Network, written by Knight, G. Roger
Roger G. Knight's empirically rich and analytically nuanced study on the Scottish entrepreneur and adventurer Gillian Maclaine (1798-1840) sheds fresh light on the role of the Indonesian Archipelago in wider networks of commerce and exchange in the early nineteenth century.By providing an in-depth reconstruction of Maclaine's life and business activities, the study analyzes how the merchant used his presence in Java to capitalize on the flow of c…
Of Whales and Dinosaur. The Story of Singapore’s Natural History Museum, written by Kevin Y.L. Tan
s history of Singapore's natural history museum is an informed addition to a growing body of studies on the history of biology in colonial and post-colonial Southeast Asia.Founded in 1874, the museum in Singapore gradually developed into a hub for biodiversity research and education in the Malay Peninsula.The museum, which is nowadays called Lee Kong Chian Natural History, holds around a million samples of prepared plants, animals, and minerals.T…
Sein und Teilen: Eine Praxis Schöpferischer Existenz
Deep Physics
Feeling is the existential experience of being matter from the inside. Feeling entangles us with the whole, parallel to the entanglement between observer and observed described in modern physics. Understanding organisms as embodied feeling is the missing link to making sense of the weirdness of modern physics, particularly the fact that the ‘observer’ is always connected to the ‘objects’ described (so-called ‘entanglement’). In organisms, such en…
Poetic Objectivity: Toward an Ethics of Aliveness
In this essay I will explore the possibility of an objective ecological ethics. To do this, I follow the embodied ethos of relationships: meaningful expression and mutual sharing occuring in living organisms and systems. Living beings on various levels of identity (cellular selves, individuals, and ecosystems) strive toward increased aliveness. They are self-healing, and generate meaningful relationships, all without the need or interference of h…
Notes on the Reviewing of Learned Websites, Digital Resources, and Tools
A ccording to advocates of the "computational turn," the job description of historians of sci- ence is about to change radically.Instead of rooting their research in carefully selected corpora of primary source material, and then using these sources to study how scientific knowledge has been produced, spread, and contested in a specific context, historians of the twentyfirst century can capitalize on a variety of digital resources and tools to sk…
Historians Should Explore Rather Than Sticking with What They Know”: Interview with Professor Harold Cook, Brown University
Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age, published in 2007. The book investigates, among other things, the global dimension of scientific and medical knowledge-production in the seventeenth century. His most recent study, on the early life of Descartes, was published only a couple of weeks before we conducted this interview. It shifts the focus back to the history of Europe, with travel central to Descartes' development.…
Die Botschaft der intimen Distanz: Animismus als ökologische Utopie
A New Political Sociology of Science
Matters of perspective; Local visual expertise and natural history drawings in Java, 1820-1850
This essay examines how local draughtsmen using their visual expertise shaped natural historical knowledge production in colonial Indonesia in the early nineteenth century. The persons at the core of this essay are Tsing Wang Ho and Pieter van Oort, both draughtsmen who worked for the Natuurkundige Commissie voor Nederlandsch-Indië (Committee of Natural History of the Netherlands Indies). By zooming in on the Committee’s fieldwork in Java in the …
Sustaining fecundity: Artistic creation as care for life
Art is as old as human culture. For most of the time, art was part of an exchange between humans and the cosmic order. Art was meant as a gift to nourish the fecundity of life. Art was communication with ancestral creational powers — the invocation of a poetic space from which creation entered the material realm. This paper explores art as a way of tapping into the invisible forces of reality. I argue that humans can experience these forces as al…
The value of a Qaly towards the end of life and its determinants: Experimental evidence
Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976
Global foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control policy is largely based on nineteenth-century British ideas about the disease. This partiality risks creating the impression that these ideas of the disease are universal. In this article, therefore, we provincialise the notion of FMD by describing how veterinarians came to know the disease in colonial and postcolonial Botswana. Specifically, we focus on the 1960s and 1970s to write a postcolonial, more…
Porous fences and elephant agencies: Rethinking infrastructure in the Okavango Delta
Despite a recent surge of literature on infrastructure and space, infrastructure breakdown in many domains continues to be presented as the result of technical failure, neglect of maintenance, or human sabotage. Infrastructure breakdown is thus mostly cast as abnormal and as caused by deficient materials, lacking resources or disobedient humans, reproducing normative ideas that successful infrastructure should be stable in its environment and wor…
Philosophy (13 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (5 works)