Reassembling the social : an introduction to actor-network-theory / Bruno Latour
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Descript
x, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction: how to resume the task of y=tracing associations -- Introduction to part I: Learning to feed off controversies -- First source of uncertainty: No group, only group formation -- Second source of uncertainty: Action is overtaken -- Third source of uncertainty: Matters of fact vs. matters of concerm -- Fifth source of uncertainty: Writing down risky accounts -- On the difficulty of being an ANT: An interlude in the form of a dialog -- Introduction to part II: Why is it so difficult to trace the social? -- How to keep the social flat -- First move: Localizing the global -- Second move: Redistributing the local -- Third move: Connecting sites -- Conclusion: From society to collective-Can the social be reassembled?