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 Latour use a different entry point as he use in Science in
Action. As far I understand, in his earlier work Latour use ANT to
de-construct (or opening 'black boxes') grand theory, reality, while
in Politics of Nature he start to make some 'black boxes' by introduce
two house of representatives: nature and society.

I don't whether my perception is true or false.

yuti

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Bas Hendrikx <B.Hendrikx@...> wrote:
> 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
> 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
>
> Best,
>
> 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
>
>