http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/taxonomy/term/22 fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/95 Actor-Network-Theory Semiotics & Literature Studies Social Theory Viualization <p>A photographic enquiry into social theory about the city of Paris with special attention to its technical &laquo;oligoptica &raquo;, a concept necessary to replace that of &laquo; panoptica &raquo;. With a very experimental layout (see <a href="http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/343" rel="nofollow">Mixed Media</a> section to live through the experience).</p> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:01:23 +0000 admin 95 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/145 Actor-Network-Theory Design Ecology & Political Ecology <p>A joint lecture with Peter Sloterdijk to explore the two concepts of “sphere » and of “network”, the paper (in line with 112) shows that there is only an apparent contradiction between the two concepts, contradiction that is maintained only as long as the nature/society trope is maintained. Both concepts act as an alternative definition of space and, although they seem to restrict the expansion of modernism concepts (especially nature), they are in effect the only way to find rooms for the artificial and material conditions of an ecological space.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:57:56 +0000 admin 145 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/149 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/149" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Modes of Existence Social Theory <p>Although theories of organizations have analyzed many formal and informal types of organizations, they often fail to follow the specificity of the organizational mode of existence because they suppose the very existence of macro-actors instead of looking at how organizations attempt to solve practically this problem. This essay in organization theory reviews some of the difficulties in tracing the specific path of organizing (taken as a gerund).</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:43:08 +0000 admin 149 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/181 Actor-Network-Theory Gabriel Tarde Social Theory <p>There is a close connection between Gabriel Tarde’s social theory and what has become known as actor network theory, especially because Tarde’s two refusals : there is no difference between natural and social assemblages ; there is no difference between ‘big’ and ‘small’ assemblages in society. Through a reading of Tarde Monadologie et sociologie recently republished, the paper explores the technical innovation of Tarde and their import for actor-network theory.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:32:21 +0000 admin 181 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/184 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/184" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Sociology of Science Technology <p>The contribution of the field of science and technology studies (STS) to main stream sociology has so far been slim because of a misunderstanding about what it means to provide a social explanation of a piece of science or of an artefact. Once this misunderstanding has been clarified, it becomes interesting to measure up the challenge raised by STS to the usual epistemologies they believed necessary for their undertakings. The social sciences imitates the natural sciences in a way that render them unable to profit from the type of objectivity found in the natural sciences.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:29:48 +0000 admin 184 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/188 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/188" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Anthropology Social Theory <p>Asked to participate in a reflexion of primatologists on what has shaped their discipline over the past half-century, the paper offers an alternative account to the optical metaphors of biases, paradigms and points of views. It is trying to define an other demarcation criterion which does not rely on what is scientific and what is not scientific, on what is inside or outside, but on the risk taken by the scientists and their objects of study.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:04:59 +0000 admin 188 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/211 Actor-Network-Theory Sociology of Science <p>Actor-network-theory is both a now well known method of social science –especially influential in organisation and information studies- and yet quite misunderstood because of the way it establishes a link between theory and field work. This paper uses the unusual medium of dialog to presents the various difficulties that exist in trying to ‘apply’ ANT to a given subject. Through the use of polemics and irony it reviews as well many of the well known weaknesses of this methodology.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:30:56 +0000 admin 211 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/225 Actor-Network-Theory Sociology of Science Technology <p>This article of social theory reintroduces the object inside the definition of society and shows how this can solve the debate between « micro” and « macro” definitions of social order. It adds to inter-subjectivity the notion of « inter-objectivity” in order to redefine the notion of agency, of action and of actor. It then proceeds to modify the definition of action.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:24:50 +0000 admin 225 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/227 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/227" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Digital Humanities Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>This paper tries to understand what has changed in social theory, because of the development of information technology in work sites and because of the analysis of sociologists, specialists of labor relations, of organizations, of situated cognition, etc. It starts with a simple example of practice and tries to analyze it by following new concepts which seems to derive from the redistribution of humans and non-humans due to the pervasiveness of computerized work sites.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:33:56 +0000 admin 227 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/238 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/238" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Digital Humanities Quantitative methods Humanités Numériques Méthodes Quantitatives <p>“The Whole is Always Smaller Than Its Parts” —How Digital Navigation May Modify Social Theory (with Pablo Jensen, Tommaso Venturini, Sébastian Grauwin and Dominique Boullier).</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:48:18 +0000 admin 238 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr