Science in action : How to follow scientists and engineers through society
Acknowledgements Introduction Opening Pandora's Black Box PART I FROM WEARER TO STRONGER RHETORIC Chapter I Literature Part A: Controversies Part B: When controversies flare up the literature becomes…
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
- B. Latour
- Sociology
- 1 September 2005
The book «Reassembling the Social» presents the fundamental thoughts of a leading social theorist on whata society is and what the word «social» actually means. According to the author «the social»,…
We Have Never Been Modern
- B. Latour
- Art
- 1991
What makes us modern? This is a classic question in philosophy as well as in political science. However it is often raised without including science and technology in its definition. The argument of…
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
- B. Latour
- Political Science, ArtCritical Inquiry
- 1 January 2004
Wars. Somanywars.Wars outside andwars inside.Culturalwars, science wars, and wars against terrorism.Wars against poverty andwars against the poor. Wars against ignorance and wars out of ignorance. My…
Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies
- B. Latour
- Art
- 1999
"Do You Believe in Reality?" News from the Trenches of the Science Wars Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest Science's Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot's Scientific…
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
- B. Latour, S. Woolgar
- Art
- 1979
This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism,…
On Recalling Ant
- B. Latour
- Computer Science
- 1 May 1999
The paper explores one after the other the four difficulties of actor-network theory, that is the words ‘actor’, ‘network’ and ‘theory’—without forgetting the hyphen. It tries to refocus the…
The Powers of Association
- B. Latour
- Sociology
- 1 May 1984
This article starts with a paradox: when an actor simply has power nothing happens and s/he is powerless; when, on the other hand, an actor exerts power it is others who perform the action. It…
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