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Off topic, but I just learned about Actor-network theory, and his work, earlier tonight. I love frameworks or models that put their attention on the edges inste
by davebryand 8y ago
Off topic, but I just learned about Actor-network theory, and his work, earlier tonight. I love frameworks or models that put their attention on the edges instead of the nodes. Interesting stuff to check out if you're interesting in graphs/networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory
- foobarbecue 8y agoMan, I had a lecture series on this (Cambridge undergrad geography). It seemed like complete bunk. The lecturer seemed to be arguing that inanimate objects were alive. The other students seemed convinced, though.
- pasabagi 8y agoI also think it's bunk, but I think the alive-inanimate-objects thing is really just a symptom. It's not his idea - rather Spinoza's, and in Spinoza's hands, is fairly sensible. Lautour's work is a lot of stuff like that - fairly commonplace* philosophy ideas, said in the most controversial way possible, rebranded as his own. *Commonplace philosophy ideas occupy a similar kind of remove to common-sense realism as set theory, so they tend to be the sort of things that sound kinda crazy until you dig in.