I suggest this as a starting point... Latour, Bruno. (1988a). "*The Prince* for Machines as well as for Machinations". *Technology and Social Process.* B....
Hello Marcus, What I'm thinking of is Kurt Lewin's Action Research, as defined in the 1940s, and currently posing as a alternative to traditional positivistic...
... John, Can¹t help thinking that such enterprises are the problem not the solution. I¹m away for a week or so but I¹ll give a fuller answer when I return...
One aspect I like very much about this discussion group, is the way it is moderated. Due to the very good moderation process, there are only serious messages....
Is the "other ANT group" referred to really another ANT group complete with experts or did John set it up himself for some kind of personal social experiment?...
Hello John, ... Just to begin: in PDCA-cycle you are always monitoring the things that are done, to see if they were done in a right way, as planned, or if ...
You are quite right, Allen. I've constructed the other ANT group as a social experiment. How long do you think it will take before we manage to translate the ...
Hello Marcus, Thanks for your long and charming e-mail. Would you say that ANT is the science of telling stories? Is it a way of producing mythology would...
... Hello, John, ... I say that you cannot interfere with something that is done. What you can do with what is done is to tell it in several diferent ways, for...
Hi John, My simple take on AR would be it's research to bring about change - is that what you have in mind? (For a helpful typology of AR see 'AR for ...
Thanks for sharing more insights, Marcus. I ordered the book by Callon from amazon in January, but there appears to be some problems. I've gotten the message...
Thanks for the comments and suggestions, Irene. Jeffrey Goldstein, "The unshackled organization" (1994), makes a point out of contrasting Lewin's approach to...
Hi, In the article Latour, Bruno, "Ethnography of a `high-tech' case. About Aramis", Latour mentiones the concept of "institution". I qoute from the text: "It...
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Martin Erpicum
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Apr 1, 2006 10:53 am
Hi, ... I don't think that you could tell that "Institution" is really a concept, ... But You could find in "Pandora’s Hope – Essays on the reality of...
Hi Martin, Thanks, your are probably right that it´s not a real concept. I´ll try too look in the text you suggested to see if I can use it. ... /Martin Rud ...
On the image of the UFO, Latour also disparagingly refers to the misapplication of theories in Science in Action p242 "Theories, now made abstract and...
If I understood the text below, it is similar to the diconnection criticized by Michel Callon in his "Laws of the Markerts": Economics (economic theory) x...
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neushfreak
fullmoon543@...
Apr 7, 2006 11:19 am
Can anyone provide me examples of the ANT theory explaining certain activities on the internet?...
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Martin Erpicum
martin.erpicum@...
Apr 7, 2006 11:55 am
Hello, I wrote an analysis of an act of vandalism on the fr.wikipedia using the main concept of ANT (heterogenity, traduction and so on). There is an abstract...
--please forward (apologies for cross postings)-- QUALITATIVE INQUIRY Editors: Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln Call for Papers: Special Issue on Technology...
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Tomás Sánchez-C...
tomassanchezcriado@...
May 19, 2006 10:12 am
Hello you all, I am a Spanish Doctoral Student in Psychology working on ANT and other "pragmatist" studies of action such as James/Dewey, ...
... certain ... You might read the section in Latour's Reassembling the Social on the misconceptualization of "applying" ANT. ANT is a way of approaching...
Please circulate as appropriate. For the Lancaster Conference "Getting Underneath the Fact: natural categories and biological facts as historical and emergent...
... That is what Latour says, indeed. And a good answer to the question for applications it is. But 'ANT' happens in its numerous applications as well. I think...
Please circulate as appropriate. For the Lancaster Conference University of Lancaster England "Getting Underneath the Fact: natural categories and biological ...
... framework or ... t. I use the terminology "an ANT approach" to applications. Indeed my dissertation focuses on ANT knowledge representation issues. I see...
Hello: Has anyone here read "Nexus Analysis" by Scollon and Scollon? I heard them speak when their book just came out, and I'm revisiting this book now ...
Hi all: I find it curious that, while ANT (especially Latour) often writes about ethnomethodology and Garfinkel, that Garfinkel (and those in the ...
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Thomas Berker
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Sep 19, 2006 11:33 pm
... Well, ethnomethodology was there first, and that Latour is trying to enroll Garfinkel while looking for allies in established social science departments...
