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Review Essay: Post-ANT Theory

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* Latour, Bruno. War of the Worlds: What About Peace? Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2002.
* Law, John. Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
* Mol, Annemarie. The Bod

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Technology Actor Network Theory Review

  • Actor-network theory (or "ANT") is one of the more interesting developments to come out of that interdisciplinary knot that is variously termed “the rhetoric of science,” “the sociology of science,”and “science studies.” Like distributed cognition, ANT is a symmetric approach to understanding experience: it dispenses with Cartesianism by using the same framework, concepts, and vocabularies for both humans and nonhumans. But unlike distributed cognition, ANT is concerned with the political and rhetorical.
19 Nov 05

Latour, Bruno: On Actor Network Theory: A few clarifications 1

Latour explains why ANT networks should not be mistaken for technical networks, social networks. He explains the connection with Diderot's philosophical rejections of Cartesian divide between matter and spirit, and Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomes. This ar

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Actor Network Theory

  • Exploring the properties of actor-networks is the task that the Paris group
    of science and technology studies has set itself to tackle since the
    beginning of the 1980s (Callon, Law, Rip, 1986). However this theory has
    been often misunderstoond and hence much abused. I would like in this paper
    to list some of the interesting properties of networks and to explain some
    of the misunderstandings that have arisen. I will not concern myself here
    with the quantitative studies especially the so called 'co-word analysis'
    since they are themselves misunderstood because of the difficulty of exactly
    grasping the social theory and quaint ontology entailed by actor-network
    (but see Callon, Courtial, Lavergne 1989a,b).

    Three misunderstandings are due to common usages of the word network itself
    and the connotations they imply.
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