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Is it useful to say that weak essences exist?
For Latour all things from people, trees, minerals, all the way to atomic phenomena are able to be seen as actors and actants, with no actor or actant being reducible or irreducible to anything else. A tree cannot ultimately be reduced without…
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Resources for application of Actor–network theory to non-human objects
In a very interesting talk Graham Harman speaks of a woman doing a PhD thesis on Actor-Network theory and Volcanoes. This is almost syncronistically in line with ideas I have been considering for my present honours thesis. The seamless crossover…
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What is a hybrid in Bruno Latour's theory?
I'm reading Latour's book We have never been modern, but I can't imagine a single example of a hybrid thing. Can you name one?
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