Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, Peter Erdélyi: The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · actor-network theory, metaphysics, philosophy, research
The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman. The occasion for the debate was the impending publication of Harman’s book, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics.
During the discussion, Latour (the ‘Prince’) compared the professional philosophers who have pursued him over the years to a pack of wolves. The Prince and the Wolf is the story of what happens when the wolf catches up with the prince. Latour and Harman engage in brisk and witty conversation about questions that go to the heart of both metaphysics and research methodology: What are objects? How do they interact? And best how to study them?
Publisher Zero Books, 2011
ISBN 1846944228, 9781846944222
146 pages
a recorded version of the symposium
PDF (updated on 2012-7-17)
Comment (0)Matei Candea (ed.): The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · actor-network theory, social science, society, sociology
The social sciences and humanities are now being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom ‘everything is a society and every science a sociology’. Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era. Reclaimed from a century of near-oblivion, his sociology has been linked to Foucaultian microphysics of power, to Deleuze’s philosophy of difference, and most recently to the spectrum of approaches related to Actor Network Theory. In this connection, Bruno Latour hailed Tarde’s sociology as “an alternative beginning for an alternative social science”. This volume asks what such an alternative social science might look like.
Publisher Routledge, 2009
CRESC (Culture, Economy and the Social) series
ISBN 0415543398, 9780415543392
287 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-17)
Comment (0)Critical Studies in Peer Production, Nr. 1: Mass Peer Activism (2011)
Filed under journal | Tags: · activism, actor-network theory, commons, filesharing, internet, mass collaboration, networks, p2p, peer production, wikipedia
Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) is a new open access, online journal. Through the analysis of the forms, operations, and contradictions of peer producing communities in contemporary capitalist society, the journal aims to open up new perspectives on the implications of peer production for social change.
Issue 1 is divided in three sections:
– Research papers by Andersson and O’Neil
– Debate papers by Söderberg, Tkacz and O’Neil
– Reports by Niesyto & Tkacz and Dobusch & Thorne
Editor: Mathieu O’Neil
Published by Oekonux, June 2011
Sections:
View online: Research: Mass peer activism (HTML articles)
View online: Debate: ANT and power (HTML articles)
View online: Reports (HTML articles)