Another turn after ANT: An interview with Bruno Latour

Tresch, John

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“…Es sind die Verbindungen (oder Referenzen) zwischen Akteuren, die etwas Neues, Reales erschaffen (Latour 1991). Latour vertritt somit die Annahme der in einzelnen sozialen Situationen geborenen Realität (Latour 2013a;Tresch 2013Tresch , 2013.…”

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Geister in Kambodscha

Christensen¹

2020

Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Geister in Kambodscha

Christensen¹

2020

Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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“…In this way, the study is inspired by Latour (2005), along with other studies on accounting as technology. As such, it contains an analysis of units in a network and how these units are stabilised by measures and techniques as well as how these units relate to each other (Justesen and Mouritsen 2011;Barter and Bebbington 2013;Tresch 2013). Moreover, accounting can become a technology that creates a space where the members' opinions are invited together with local adaptions of solutions (Tresch 2013).…”

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“…As such, it contains an analysis of units in a network and how these units are stabilised by measures and techniques as well as how these units relate to each other (Justesen and Mouritsen 2011;Barter and Bebbington 2013;Tresch 2013). Moreover, accounting can become a technology that creates a space where the members' opinions are invited together with local adaptions of solutions (Tresch 2013). Furthermore, this perspective makes it possible to analyse accounting not only as a tool used by humans but also as a technology doing something.…”

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Technology as integrated into institutions: expanding the list of actors affecting institutional conditions of cooperation

Forsberg

2018

International Journal of the Commons

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This study seeks to overcome the gap between institutions and technology in the literature of the commons. It emphasises the importance of inviting and testing different technologies as actors that are of importance for resolving social dilemmas. In this study, a test is carried out to see if a certain accounting technology mediates factors that facilitate the sustainable management of commons. The technology that is tested in this study regards 'notched sticks' that were used as accounting in self-governed farming villages during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in upper Dalarna, Sweden, when organising 'new urban commons'. The findings are that the notched sticks did function as mediators, connected in a network that did affect several factors, or conditions, for sustainable management of commons. As such, the technology of sticks was an actor that served in mediating relations, decision-making and transparency. For example, as accounting technology the sticks did change situations with possible individual bounded rationality through the construction of social entities and methods for balancing rights and obligations. Considering how accounting technology can be integrated into institutions, this implies that awareness is needed when changing and implementing technological solutions.

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“…This paper does not engage with the history of the development of Latour's ideas, which is already well documented (Harman 2009;Latour 2013;Tresch 2013). …”

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“…But if we do take them seriously, as I believe we should, these statements add up to an internally coherent and innovative ontology that conflicts with some of the most basic assumptions of most varieties of realism. This paper does not engage with the history of the development of Latour's ideas, which is already well documented (Harman 2009;Latour 2013b;Tresch 2013). Instead, it begins by forefronting the oddness of some of ANT's intriguing claims about reality.…”

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Disassembling Actor-network Theory

Elder-Vass

2014

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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One of the strikingly iconoclastic features of actor-network theory is its juxtaposition of the claim to be a realist perspective with denials that supposedly natural phenomena existed before scientists "made them up". This paper explains and criticises such arguments in the work of Bruno Latour. By combining referent and reference in the concept of assemblages, Latour provides a superficially viable way to reconcile these apparently incompatible claims. This paper will argue, however, that this conflation of referent and reference leads Latour's ontology into difficulties that can only be resolved by abandoning it in favour of a more conventional -criticalrealism.

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Another turn after ANT: An interview with Bruno Latour

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

Geister in Kambodscha

Geister in Kambodscha

Technology as integrated into institutions: expanding the list of actors affecting institutional conditions of cooperation

Disassembling Actor-network Theory

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