Working with substance: Actor-network theory and the modal weight of the material

Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-84

  McGrail, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874337931     PISSN: 01617249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Arora, J., S. Burns, and M. Huang. 1997. "What is optimization?" In J. Arora (ed.), Guide to structural optimization. New York: American society of civil engineers.
2. Baber, C., and C. Barber. 2003. Cognition and tool use: Forms of engagement in human and animal use of tools. London: Taylor and Francis.
3. Bessant, J. 1983. "Management and manufacturing innovation: The case of information technology." In G. Winch (ed.) Information technology in manufacturing processes: Case studies in technological change. London: Rossendale.
4. Budinski, K. 1979. Engineering materials, properties and selection. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
5. Callon, M. 1986. "The sociology of an actor-network." In M. Callon, J. Law, A. Rip (eds.) Mapping the dynamics of science and technology. London: Macmillan.
6. Callon, M. 1999. "Actor-network theory: The market test." In J. Law, J. Hassard (eds.), Actor Network Theory and after. Oxford: Blackwell.
7. Callon, M., Latour, B. 1981. "Unscrewing the big Leviathan: How actors macro-structure reality and how sociologists help them to do so." In K. Knorr & A. Cicourel (eds.), Advances in social theory and methodology: Toward an integration of micro and macro sociologies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
8. Constant, E. 1999. "Reliable knowledge and unreliable stuff." Technology and Culture 40(2).
9. Dant, T. 2004. "The driver-car." Theory, Culture & Society 21(4/5): 61-70.
10. Divers, J. 2002. Possible worlds. London: Routledge.
11. Dusek, V. 2006. Philosophy of technology: An introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
12. Gibson, J. 1979. The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
13. Guala, F. 2003. "Experimental localism and external validity." Philosophy of Science 70(5/1).
14. Haftka, R., Vitali, R., Sankar, B. 1998. "Optimization of composite structures using response surface approximations." In C. Soares, M. Freitas (eds.), Mechanics of composite materials and structures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
15. Hansen, M. 2000. Embodying technesis: Technology beyond writing. Michigan University Press.
16. Harman, G, 2002. Tool-being: Heidegger and the metaphysics of objects. Chicago: Open Court.
17. Heidegger, M. 1962. Being and time. New York: Harper & Row.
18. Heidegger, M. 1971a. "Building, dwelling, thinking." In A. Hofstadter (ed.), Poetry, language, thought. New York: Harper & Row.
19. Heil, J. 2003. From an ontological point of view. New York: Oxford University Press.
20. Hutchby, I. 2001. "Technologies, texts and affordances." Sociology 35(2): 441-56.
21. Johansson, I. 2004. Ontological investigations: An inquiry into the categories of nature, man, and society. Lancaster: Ontos.
22. Keil, F. 1999. The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
23. Kennedy, D. 2002. Rethinking reality: Lucretius and the textualization of nature. University of Michigan Press.
24. de Laet, M., and A. Mol. 2000. "The Zimbabwe bush pump: Mechanics of a fluid technology." Social Studies of Science 30(2).
25. Latour, B. 1983. "Give me a laboratory and I will raise the whole world." In K. Knorr, M. Mulkay (eds.), Science observed: Perspectives on the social study of science. Los Angeles: Sage.
26. Latour, B. 1988a. The pasteurization of France. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Latour, B. 1988b. Irreductions: part II of the pasteurization of France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
28. Latour, B. 1988c. "The politics of explanation: an alternative." In S. Woolgar (ed.), Knowledge and reflexivity: new frontiers in the sociology of knowledge. London: Sage.
29. Latour, B. 1996. Aramis, or the love of technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
30. Latour, B. 1999a. Pandora's hope: essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
31. Latour, B. 1999b. "On recalling ANT." In J. Law, J. Hassard (eds.) Actor Network Theory and after. Oxford: Blackwell.
32. Latour, B. 2004a. "Why has the critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matter of concern." Critical Inquiry 30(2): 25-48.
33. Latour, B. 2004b. "How to talk about the body: The normative dimension of science studies." Body & Society 10(2/3): 205-29.
34. Latour, B. 2005a. Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
35. Latour, B. 2005b. "What is given in experience?" Boundary 2(32): 223-37.
36. Latour, B., and P. Weibel. 2005. Making things public: Atmospheres of democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
37. Law, J. 1986. "On the methods of long distance control: Vessels, navigation and the Portuguese route to India." In J. Law (ed.), Power action and belief: A new sociology of knowledge? London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
38. Law, J. 1987. "Technology and heterogeneous engineering: The case of the Portuguese expansion." In W. Bijker, T. Hughes (eds), The social construction of technical systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
39. Law, J. 1999. "After ANT: Complexity, naming and topology." In J. Law, J. Hassard (eds.), Actor Network Theory and after. Oxford: Blackwell.
40. Law, J. 2002a. Aircraft stories: Decenetering the object in technoscience. Durham: Duke University Press.
41. Law, J. 2002b. "Objects and spaces." Theory, Culture & Society 19(5/6).
42. Law, J., and A. Mol. 1995. Notes on materiality and sociality. The sociological review 43.
43. Law, J., and A. Mol. 2001. "Situating technoscience: An inquiry into spatialities." Society & Space 19.
44. Law, J., and V. Singleton. 2000. "Performing technologies stories: On social constructivism, performance, and performativity." Technology and Culture 41(4).
45. Lesko, J. 1999. Industrial design materials and manufacturing: Materials and manufacturing. New York: Wiley.
46. Levinas, E. 1988. Existence and Existents. The Hague: Martinus Nijoff.
47. Lilja, D., and J. Yi. 2006. "Statistical techniques for computer performance analysis." In L. Kurian and J. Lieven (eds.), Performance evaluation and benchmarking. New York: Springer.
48. van der Linden, W. 2005. Linear models of optimal test design. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis.
49. Lupton, D. 1999. "Monsters in metal cocoons: 'Road rage' and cyborg bodies." Body and Society 5 (1): 57-72.
50. May, T. 1997. Reconsidering difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
51. Mol, A. 1999. "Ontological politics: A word and some questions." In J. Law, J. Hassard (eds) Actor Network Theory and after. Oxford: Blackwell.
52. Mol, A. 2002. The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice. London: Duke University Press.
53. Nietzsche, F. 1996. Human all too human: A book for free spirits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
54. Nietzsche, F. 2001. The gay science: With a prelude in German rhymes and an appendix of songs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
55. Rorty, R. 1996. "Relativism: Finding and making." In R. Rorty (ed.), Philosophy and social hope. London: Penguin.
56. Sharrock, W., and B. Anderson. 1996. "Organizational innovation and the articulation of the design space." In T. Moran and J. Carroll (eds.), Design rationale: Concepts, techniques, and use. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
57. Stankiewicz, R. 2002. "The cognitive dynamics of biotechnology and the evolution of its technological systems." In B. Carlsson (ed.), Technological systems in bio-industries: An international study. Norwell: Kluwer Academic.
58. Stengers, I. 2002. Penser avec Whitehead: Une libre et sauvage creation de concepts. Paris: Gallimard.
59. Teil, G. 1998. Devenir expert aromaticien: Y-a-t-il une place pour le goût daCussinns les goûts alimentaires? Revue de Sociologie du Travail, September.
60. Ullman, D. 1992. The mechanical design process. New York: McGraw-Hill.
61. Urry, J. 2000. Sociology beyond societies: Mobilities for the twenty-first century. London: Routledge.
62. Whitehead, A. 1929. Process and reality: an essay in cosmology. New York: The MacMillan Company.
63. Zubiri, X. 2003. Dynamic structure of reality: Translated from the Spanish and annotated by N.R. Orringer. Champain: University of Illinois Press.