This is the opening introductory chapter (PDF of John Law’s After Method: Mess In Social Science Research. It could be the manifesto for this semester. Law is a colleague of Bruno Latour (actor-network theory, mentioned in the Bogost readings andRead more…
Tidings
Monique on Latour. For Monique the crux is, elegantly, how can we describe things as things. (And presumably that means not as things for us, things that are only equal to what we say about them from one or twoRead more…
Recommended about ANT
This is an essay I found recently that uses Latour’s actor-network theory in relation to documentary. I haven’t finished reading it, but the first few pages where they talk specifically about actor-network theory – what it is and how itRead more…
Reading 04
This is an odd extract from the middle of Latour’s Reassembling the Social. The one book where he explicitly addresses just what he means by actor-network theory (ANT). This chapter is written as an imaginary dialogue between Latour and aRead more…