Latour, Bruno: On Actor Network Theory: A few clari...
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- Klever on 2006-07-02 - Tags actor-network theory , ant , bruno latour , papers
- Cchesher on 2005-11-19 - Tags Actor , Network , Theory
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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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on 2006-07-02 by klever