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Dear all,
When using ANT, I always wonder whether ANT has ethics or not? Can ANT
make an assessment whether something is good or bad? Or in ANT, it is
not important to assess good or bad of several actions/phenomena, its
roles are to explain actor constellation?

For instance, when I try to examine national innovation system. I
follow several actors simultaneously, then I try to make the
actor-network constellation. But when I try to explain the
constellation with sustainability and democracy issues, I became
confused. As a way out, I use the concept qualculation by Law and
Callon to assess the phenomena, but I am still curious how to relate
ANT with democracy.

Do you have any suggestion?

warm regards,
yuti



Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:36 pm

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Dear all, When using ANT, I always wonder whether ANT has ethics or not? Can ANT make an assessment whether something is good or bad? Or in ANT, it is not...
yuti ariani
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Nov 16, 2008
12:35 pm

hi yuti I m far from being an expert so please take my comments with a grain a salt - perhaps someone else will have more informed comments - one of the...
Patricia Fronek
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Nov 16, 2008
8:31 pm

Well Bruno Latour might say that the ethics of ANT lies in giving all actors a voice, a democracy as Patricia puts it. But my expereince of trying to trace and...
Andrew Bolger
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Nov 19, 2008
5:01 pm

Hi Yuti, I think these are really the difficult questions to pose when using an ANT approach. I don't know if it will be of much help, but perhaps Latour's ...
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Nov 19, 2008
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Hi Bas, Thanks for the link. Another reference I use to seek relation between ANT and democracy is through Latour's book: Politics of Nature (2004). I think...
yuti ariani
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Nov 19, 2008
10:08 pm

Andrew would you say they tend to be the 'spokespersons'? I am interested in your thoughts on some more equal than others tricia ... From: Andrew Bolger To:...
Patricia Fronek
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Nov 19, 2008
7:47 pm

Yup, I also wonder on some more equal than others... Do you 'assess' this using concept of center of calculation? For instance, by comparing citation index of...
yuti ariani
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Nov 19, 2008
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Sorry for the delay in replying, what did I mean by 'some actors are more equal than others'? Basically, if you try to draw a network of actors in the way Yuti...
Andrew Bolger
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Nov 24, 2008
7:41 pm

thanks andrew and yuti appreciate your comments tricia...
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