Rowland, Nicholas J. and Passoth, Jan-Hendrik and B., Alexander (2011) Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 5 (1). pp. 95-99. ISSN 1913-0465
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Abstract
It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist attitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT after its 1999 death (see Law and Hassard 1999). Like Graham Harman’s book about Latour, The Prince of Networks (2009), Reassembling the Social is the outcome of various lectures and seminars, and must be read as such. Readers looking for the second incarnation of Science in Action (1987) or a follow-up to The Pasteurization of France (1988) will be sorely disappointed because Latour’s offering here is more akin to Politics of Nature (2004) or We Have Never Been Modern (1993) in that the audience gets a repetitive synthesis peppered with aperçu rather than reams of deep empirical analysis, as Gubert (2007, 603) has also suggested. Conceivably, the book might be the classroom workhorse for Latour’s new transnational teaching and research project “Mapping Controversies,” which is running simultaneously in six institutions (see http://www.demoscience.org/).
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| Keywords: | Scientific Realism; Epistemic Issues; Epistemology of Science | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Technology General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Jordan Miller | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2021 02:26 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2021 02:26 | ||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 17892 | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | The University of Toronto | ||||||||||||
| Official URL: | https://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca... | ||||||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.4245/sponge.v5i1.14968 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Technology General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 30 September 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 95-99 | ||||||||||||
| Volume: | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1913-0465 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17892 |
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