Alicia Juarrero on Constraints and Coherence

Irit Batsry, Tracking 5, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Alicia Juarrero is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s College, Largo, Maryland in the United States, and president and co-founder of Vector Analytica. Her books include Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press 1999); Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from North and South (ISCE Publishing, 2007); Emergence, Self-Organization and Complexity: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, 2008); and Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence (MIT Press 2023). In this episode we discuss the temporal and material aspects of emergence and momentum.