Full Circle

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In this weeks reading by Bruno Latour rejects the idea that the ANT is sewage, a train or a subway. He rejects the idea that it is concrete.

An actor-network may lack all the characteristics of a
technical network -it may be local, it may have no compulsory paths, no strategically positioned nodes. Tom Hughes's 'networks of power' (1983), to give a historical example, are actor-networks at the beginning of the story and only some of their stabilized elements end up to be networks in the engineer's sense, that is the electrical grid. Even at this later stage the engineering definition of networks are still a partial projection of an actor-network.

In week One of this course, Adrian described the network was as an ocean. It was changing, it was loose, it was personal, it was individual.

It was speculative.

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