Diving in Magma - Tommaso Venturini
... unburdened of all theoretical subtleties. As such, the cartography of controversies may appeal to those who are intrigued by ANT, but find its philosophical implications too demanding. Concentrating on the practice of mapping and staying clear from conceptual troubles, students and researchers may h ...
... unburdened of all theoretical subtleties. As such, the cartography of controversies may appeal to those who are intrigued by ANT, but find its philosophical implications too demanding. Concentrating on the practice of mapping and staying clear from conceptual troubles, students and researchers may h ...
Diving in Magma - Science Po | Medialab
... educational version of Actor-‐Network Theory (ANT). Like ANT, it is a method “to live, to know, and to practice in the complexities of tension” (Law, 1999: p. 12). Unlike ANT, it ...
... educational version of Actor-‐Network Theory (ANT). Like ANT, it is a method “to live, to know, and to practice in the complexities of tension” (Law, 1999: p. 12). Unlike ANT, it ...
A strong distinction between humans and non
... What I decided was to do away with this debate completely and to use instead the human and non-human distinction, taking a word other than the subject–object argument. Why? As a social scientist I should be able to register in my data things that people say when they practise. Three different exampl ...
... What I decided was to do away with this debate completely and to use instead the human and non-human distinction, taking a word other than the subject–object argument. Why? As a social scientist I should be able to register in my data things that people say when they practise. Three different exampl ...
Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn Heather
... Given the subsumption of many aspects of religion into the concept of culture after the Enlightenment, it is not surprising that these sacred aspects of hermeneutics should survive into the era of secular modernity. What is more surprising is that its humanist aspects have such a continued presence ...
... Given the subsumption of many aspects of religion into the concept of culture after the Enlightenment, it is not surprising that these sacred aspects of hermeneutics should survive into the era of secular modernity. What is more surprising is that its humanist aspects have such a continued presence ...
A Different Society Altogether - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... these disciplines: some take the bird’s-eye view while others take a worm’s-eye view; some emphasize conflict while others emphasize cooperation; some emphasize a close study of the subjective world of actors while others insist on collecting quantifiable data in order to make possible a generalizat ...
... these disciplines: some take the bird’s-eye view while others take a worm’s-eye view; some emphasize conflict while others emphasize cooperation; some emphasize a close study of the subjective world of actors while others insist on collecting quantifiable data in order to make possible a generalizat ...
Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics
... shortly. First a comment on Kuhn. He said that scientists work through cases, exemplars. Knowing the formalisms isn’t enough. You need to know what they mean in practice. Kuhn’s book, a set of exemplary case-studies, exemplifies this. The sociologists of science worked through exemplary case-studies ...
... shortly. First a comment on Kuhn. He said that scientists work through cases, exemplars. Knowing the formalisms isn’t enough. You need to know what they mean in practice. Kuhn’s book, a set of exemplary case-studies, exemplifies this. The sociologists of science worked through exemplary case-studies ...
On Latour`s social theory and theory of society, and
... have to accept the representations of scientists and engineers as being the definitive descriptions (Collins and Yearley 1992, 322). The most interesting aspect of this critique is the fact that the large empirical study conducted by Latour with Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life (Latour and Woolgar 197 ...
... have to accept the representations of scientists and engineers as being the definitive descriptions (Collins and Yearley 1992, 322). The most interesting aspect of this critique is the fact that the large empirical study conducted by Latour with Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life (Latour and Woolgar 197 ...
Social nature: Collapsing dichotomies without unraveling the fabric of things
... that make it possible to negotiate specific situations (207, italics his). We are composed through a heterogeneous array of bodily gestures and expressions, signs and habits, official and legal documents, and so on. Unlike baboons, who exert tremendous effort to maintain complex social networks usi ...
... that make it possible to negotiate specific situations (207, italics his). We are composed through a heterogeneous array of bodily gestures and expressions, signs and habits, official and legal documents, and so on. Unlike baboons, who exert tremendous effort to maintain complex social networks usi ...
Presentation
... prescription that knowledge consists of valid explanations that, when applied to problem-situations, make a difference to our evaluation of them. Explanations that fail in this respect are not valued. Relatedly, the Realist view says that there is an objective reality that exists solely by virtue o ...
... prescription that knowledge consists of valid explanations that, when applied to problem-situations, make a difference to our evaluation of them. Explanations that fail in this respect are not valued. Relatedly, the Realist view says that there is an objective reality that exists solely by virtue o ...
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour (French: [latuʁ]; born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist of science. He is especially known for his work in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he is now Professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006), where he is the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He is also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.Latour is best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern (1991; English translation, 1993), Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar, 1979) and Science in Action (1987). Although his studies of scientific practice were at one time associated with social constructionist approaches to the philosophy of science, Latour has diverged significantly from such approaches. He is best known for withdrawing from the subjective/objective division and re-developing the approach to work in practice. Along with Michel Callon and John Law, Latour is one of the primary developers of actor–network theory (ANT), a constructionist approach influenced by the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel, the generative semiotics of Algirdas Julius Greimas, and (more recently) the sociology of Émile Durkheim's rival Gabriel Tarde.Latour's monographs earned him a 10th place among most-cited book authors in the humanities and social sciences for the year 2007.