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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 ideas on democracy and pragmatism might be useful here. Have a look at Latour & Weibel's 2005 Making things publik, or download the introductory chapter on Latour's website: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/livres/96-MTP-DING.pdf
Latour, B. 2005. From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik. Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy.LIB#843
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Bas
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:36 AM, yuti ariani <yuti.ariani@...> wrote:
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
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