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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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Bruno Latour, The pasteurization of France , trans. Alan Sheridan and John Law, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 273, £23.95. - Georges Canguilhem, Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences , trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The MIT Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 160, £17.95.
TL;DR: The Pasteurization of France can be viewed as a battle, with its field and its myriad contestants, in which opposing sides attempted to mould and coerce various forces of resistance.
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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday
TL;DR: This book presents an overview of the challenges faced by ethnographers who wish to understand activities that involve the internet, and explores both methodological principles and practical strategies for coming to terms with the definition of field sites, the connections between online and offline and the changing nature of embodied experience.
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The Wrong Bin Bag: A Turn to Ontology in Science and Technology Studies?
Steve Woolgar,Javier Lezaun +1 more
TL;DR: There is in science and technology studies a perceptible new interest in matters of "ontology" as mentioned in this paper, and the notion of "enactment" has been explored in the context of ontology.
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The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition
TL;DR: The ontological turn in the history of anthropology and its emergence as a distinct theoretical orientation over the past few decades has been discussed in this paper, showing how it emerged in the work of Roy Wagner, Marilyn Strathern and Viveiros de Castro, as well a number of younger scholars.
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Animal geographies I
TL;DR: The first three reports on animal geographies as discussed by the authors set out the development of the subdiscipline, from the mid-1990s onwards, and charted the emergence of what has become a distinctive and innovative field with increasing interdisciplinary connections.
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The Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001
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Ontological Choreography: Agency through Objectification in Infertility Clinics:
TL;DR: This paper used ethnographic data drawn from fieldwork in infertility clinics to question the humanist argument that self need to be protected from technological objectification to ensure agency and authenticity. But the dependence of self on technology has received less attention.