Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 171.
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:17:26 +0100
From: galloway@ischool.utexas.edu
Subject: re 17.163 a philosophy of tools
Willard,
Heidegger has interesting things to say about "equipment," but
"actor-network theory" is especially very relevant here: it includes
objects as "actants" (bearing "captured agency" per Andrew Pickering) in a
network of signification. Major players are Latour, Law, Callon. There has
been a huge discussion in the social studies of science and technology
literature about the theory-ladenness of tools ever since (most famously)
Latour & Woolgar's Laboratory Life outed the implications of their
construction.
Pat Galloway
University of Texas-Austin
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