http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/taxonomy/term/24 en http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/93 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/93" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Technology Viualization Théorie de l'acteur réseau <p>Paris se donne si facilement au regard des peintres et des touristes, on l’a si souvent photographiée, on a publié sur la Ville Lumière tellement de beaux livres, qu’on oublie les difficultés des milliers d’ingénieurs, de techniciens, de fonctionnaires, d’habitants et de commerçants, pour la rendre visible. Ce petit livre voudrait, par le texte et par l’image, cheminer à travers la ville en explorant quelques unes des raisons qui empêchent de l’embrasser facilement d’un seul coup d’oeil.</p> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:46:05 +0000 admin 93 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/130 Epistemology History of Science Sociology of Science Technology <p>Written for a large public interested in renewing the understanding of scientific practice and its connection with the rest of society this book uses anecdotes, case studies, examples from many different periods and disciplines, to define rules of methods which can be used in following scientists around; the key role is given to non-humans, that is to associations that cut accross the former divide between nature and society. It can be used as a general introduction to science studies.</p> Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:04:49 +0000 admin 130 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/156 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/156" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Philosophy Semiotics & Literature Studies Technology Viualization <p>Netz’s book is, without question, the most important work in science studies since Shapin &amp; Schaffer Leviathan and the Air Pump. By resorting to a very original semiotic and constructivist method, it manages to redescribe entirely the practice of deduction in the beginning of Greek geometry. It shows how this practice bears almost no connection with the various theories of abstraction and conviction that have been offered by philosophers from Plato onwards. It offers the first systematic non-formalist description of formalism at its early historical stage.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:03:32 +0000 admin 156 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/184 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/184" target="_blank">read more</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/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/node/233 Technology <p>In a special issue devoted to human-non-human attribution, it uses the former paper to show that the two extreme positions of humans and non-humans are devoid of meaning and should be replaced, instead, by the exchange of properties, competences and performances. There is no sense in which a human or a technique can be said to exist.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:56:12 +0000 admin 233 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/234 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/234" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Philosophy Politics Technology <p>In this series of three lectures -shortened in one long paper- is presented the philosophical, sociological and mythical account of the links between humans and non-humans; the first section explores the notion of translation in order to give activity back to objects, the second follows empirical examples of technical systems and the third offers a mythical account of how humans and techniques co-evolved. The general purpose of the article is to show that there are many ways to escape the dualist paradigm separating humans and non-humans.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:02:16 +0000 admin 234 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/241 Philosophy Technology <p>Technology is based on a strange idea of matter coming largely from epistemology, which means that instead of a thick materialism, we end up, most of the time with an idealism of matter that renders techniques fully opaque.</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:11:26 +0000 admin 241 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/256 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/256" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Technology <p>The first task of the anthropology of techniques is to establish a common ground between those who study traditional techniques and those, called sociologists, technologists, historians of technology or economists, who study modern, central or high-tech pieces of machinery. But even once this common ground is established, the main problem of this type of anthropology remains: how can we understand the social construction of artefacts together with the technical construction of society.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:21:50 +0000 admin 256 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/258 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/258" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Semiotics & Literature Studies Technology <p>According to some physicists there is not enough mass in the universe to balance the accounts that cosmologists make of it. They are looking everywhere for the “missing mass” that could add up to the nice expected total. It is the same with sociologists. They are constantly looking, somewhat desperately, for social links sturdy enough to tie all of us together or for moral laws that would be inflexible enough to make us behave properly. When adding up social ties it does not balance. Soft human and weak moralities are all sociologists can get.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:34:31 +0000 admin 258 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr