FINAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS PhD Workshop - Researching Social Software 28-30 November, 2007 Course Leader: Adrian Mackenzie, University of Lancaster. Location:...
Dear all, I thought you might be interested to know that a recording of a symposium last week on the empirical metaphysics of Bruno Latour is now available...
Peter Erdelyi
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Feb 13, 2008 3:01 pm
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I've read the book and have a decent idea of Latour's ANT, but I found the book was short on how to actually write this kind of paper using ANT. I've got a...
Dear Jonathan, Have a look at Latour's 'Paris Invisible City' (1998) in which Latour takes a more empirical approach than in Reassembling the social. This...
Bas Hendrikx
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Mar 18, 2008 12:09 pm
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For pure fun and lighthearted application, try: Becoming the Milky Way: Mobile Phones and Actor Networks at a U2 Concert Online Publication Date: 01 June 2007 ...
Hi, My name is Dan Grosu and I am a doctoral student at the National School for Political and Administration Studies from Bucharest (Romania). I'd like to ask...
Dan, You might find this article to be helpful: Bingham, N. 1996: Object-ions: from technological determinism towards geographies of relations. Environment and...
Hello, You can take a look to this article of John Law : http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/law-notes-on-ant.pdf It's very dense but it used to be...
Good suggestion. Someone now should write the vademecum on ANT since the Master jhas authorized it in his last book. First rule: Look at the actors and follow...
Hi Jonathan, I'm not sure it helps, but you may have a look at pages 17-18 (starting at the middle of page 17) of a book chapter I wrote some time ago,...
Antonio,Not only was the passage you cited an excellent overview, but the entire chapter was incredibly useful! It summarizes the basic issues in the theory of...
I'm now doing a research on an egovernment project. I find the potential is high to analysis from ANT. That is the alliance, interests inscribed in the...
Dear James, I think the possibilities to use an ANT perspective to your analysis depends on the kind of research questions that you have. In terms of the ...
Bas Hendrikx
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Apr 24, 2008 1:06 pm
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Good suggestions, thank you. I think I does not grasp the spirit of ANT in the initial thinking. ... analysis depends ... analysts would ... as a ... like you ...
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What is an Organization? Materiality, Agency and Discourse http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2008/whatorg.asp Date: May 21 22, 2008 (right before the start...
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...
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...
Latour's keynote speech (Oct, 2008) for a conference called design Cornwall considers designing for good, the article is called "A cautious prometheus, a few...
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 ...
Bas Hendrikx
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Nov 19, 2008 5:01 pm
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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 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:...
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...
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...
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...
Dear all, I'm working on a gender proposal and wondering whether ANT can used as the methodology or not. I think it can't since ANT is used to de-construct...
Dear colleagues, I am trying to write a paper for the International Journal of Foresight about the translation of a foresight methodology, and I'd like to use...
Dear Dan, I don't have any experience in connecting ANT and foresight, but what I know from ANT is that it try to make the actors talk to talk for themselves...