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==Actor network theory== | ==Actor network theory== | ||
Bruno Latour (1987). Science in Action. Introduction: [[:File:latour-introduction-to-ant-theory.pdf]] | Bruno Latour (1987). Science in Action. Introduction: [[:File:latour-introduction-to-ant-theory.pdf]] | ||
“Especially since the publication of Latour’s Science in Action (1987), ANT has dominated theoretical discussions in STS, and has served as a framework for an enormous number of studies. Its successes, as a theory of science, technology, and everything else, have been mostly bound up in its relational materialism. As a materialist theory it explains intuitively the successes and failures of facts and artifacts: they are the effects of the successful translation of actions, forces, and interests. As a relationalist theory it suggests novel results and promotes ecological analyses: humans and non-humans are bound up with each other, and features on neither side of that apparent divide can be understood without reference to features on the other. Whether actor-network theorists can answer all the questions people have of it remains to be seen, but it stands as the best known of STS’s theoretical achievements so far.”(Sismondo 2010) | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||