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Cutting the Network
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In this article, a reflexion sur le pouvoir d'extension infinie de la narration analytique, and sur la place tout a fait interessante qu'occupe le droit de propriete dans un monde apparemment sans limites is presented.Abstract:
Les nouvelles technologies ont rouvert un vieux debat concernant les descriptions de la vie sociale et les approches considerees novatrices ou surranees. Repondant a l'appel lance par Latour, qui prone une anthropologie symetrique reunissant les formes de savoir modernes et non-modernes, l'article considere les concepts d'hybride et de reseau tels qu'ils sont utilises aujourd'hui. Ce faisant, il presente une reflexion sur le pouvoir d'extension infinie de la narration analytique, et sur la place tout a fait interessante qu'occupe le droit de propriete dans un monde apparemment sans limitesread more
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Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
TL;DR: Figuring the human in AI and robotics: Demystifications and re-enchantments of the human-like machine examines the role of language in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics.
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After Ant: Complexity, Naming and Topology:
TL;DR: The authors explored the tension central to the notion of an actor-network, which is an intentionally oxymoronic term that combines structure and agency, and argued that this tension has been lost as "actor-network" has been converted into a smooth and consistent "theory" that has been (too) simply and easily displaced, criticised or applied.
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Towards an uncertain politics of professionalism: teacher and nurse identities in flux
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the ways in which "discursive dynamics" come to re-write the professional teacher and nurse as split, plural and conflictual selves, as they seek to come to terms with a political impetus written through what the authors term an "economy of performance" in uncertain conflict with various "ecologies of practice".
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Situating Technoscience: An Inquiry into Spatialities
John Law,Annemarie Mol +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the spatial characteristics of science and technology are explored, and it is argued that the 'global' includes and is enacted in all four topological systems (region, network, topology and space).
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Affective spaces, melancholic objects: ruination and the production of anthropological knowledge*
TL;DR: In this article, an anthropologically engaged theory of affect through an ethnographic reflection on spatial and material melancholia is proposed, which merges theories of affect and subjectivity as well as of language and materiality.
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Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific
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How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist?
TL;DR: The distinction between indigenes (interne a la societe) and non-indigenes as discussed by the authors is made between anthropologues and expanderes (externe a l'aide, des autochtones etaient davantage estimees car refletant une soit-disant meilleure realite).