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Slippery: Field notes in empirical ontology
John Law,Marianne Elisabeth Lien +1 more
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In this paper, the authors explore empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices and use the case of Atlantic salmon to argue that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices.Abstract:
This paper explores empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices. Using the case of Atlantic salmon, it describes a series of scientific and fish-farming practices. Since these practices differ, the paper also argues that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices. The paper explores the precarious choreographies of those practices, considers the ways in which they enact agency and also work to generate Otherness. Finally it emphasises the productivity of practices and notes that they generate not simply particular realities (for instance particular salmon), but also enact a penumbra of not quite realised realities: animals that were almost but not quite created.read more
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Counting the countless: Statistics on homelessness and the spatial ontology of political numbers
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Imagining wildlife: New technologies and animal censuses, maps and museums
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Delivering Design: Performance and Materiality in Professional Interaction Design
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Nature sports: ontology, embodied being, politics
TL;DR: In nature sports athletes interact with the surfaces, textures and fluids of physical geographical features as well as the dynamic forces that create them as discussed by the authors, and these interactions have largely been largely b...
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
TL;DR: Simians, Cyborgs and Women as mentioned in this paper is a collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989 by Haraway that analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs.
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Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a scientific and economic controversy about the causes for the decline in the population of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay and the attempts by three marine biologists to develop a conservation strategy for that population.
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
Bruno Latour,Steve Woolgar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist, drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change.
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
TL;DR: In this article, Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students, in addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction.
Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a scientific and economic controversy about the causes for the decline in the population of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay and the attempts by three marine biologists to develop a conservation strategy for that population.