Weaving without a weaver: where is agency in temporal fabric? 

Join our Organisational Theory and Information Systems seminar

Speaker: Professor Brian T Pentland, Broad College of Business, Michigan State University

About the seminar topic

‘Temporal fabric’ is based on a strong processual ontology of paths and events. The path-event ontology is elegant, but it poses a problem: in a world without agents, where do you locate agency? Who or what is weaving the fabric? In this talk, I invite you to explore whether temporal fabric needs a weaver or whether agency emerges in the weaving. Bring your ideas and we will do some weaving of our own. Expect a few loose threads.

Speaker bio

Brian T Pentland is the Main Street Capital Corporation Intellectual Capital Endowed Professor in the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.  He received his PhD in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991.

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No registration required. If you have any questions about this seminar, please email Luke Slater.