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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
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The Wrong Bin Bag: A Turn to Ontology in Science and Technology Studies?
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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
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Animal geographies I
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Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
TL;DR: Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates open a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research as mentioned in this paper.
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Shaping technology, building society : studies in sociotechnical change
Wiebe E. Bijker,John Law +1 more
TL;DR: Bijker and Law as discussed by the authors carried forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history, addressing the central question of how technologies become stabilized, how they attain a final form and use that is generally accepted.
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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
TL;DR: Chakrababaity et al. as mentioned in this paper, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference Dipesh Chakrabaity Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000 ix + 301 pp, notes, index
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Ontological politics. A word and some questions
TL;DR: In this article, actor network theory and its semiotic relatives have reshaped ontology by underlining that the actor network can be seen as a kind of actor-network theory.