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Toscano on capitalism and panorama
Alberto Toscano’s forthcoming lecture at Simon Fraser University on 6 March 2012, among others deploying Latour’s concept of the ‘panorama:’ Capitalism and Panorama: Staging Totality in Social Theory...
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Policy meets ANT workshop
Call for participation Policy meets Actor Network Theory: doctoral student workshop Policy has become “increasingly central concept and instrument in the organization of contemporary societies [and]...
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At the limits of individual human rationality…
…the social steps in and takes over – at least in my home town of Bournemouth. Should you get so drunk on a Saturday night between 10pm and 3am that you can no longer rely on your cognitive and...
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Videos of recent Latour talks
Watch video: “Ecological Crises, Digital Humanities and New Political Assemblies,” Azim Premji University, 23 March 2012 Watch video: “Reenacting Science,” Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin,...
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New book: Agency without Actors?
Passoth, J., B. Peuker & M. Schillmeier (Eds) (2012) Agency without Actors? Rethinking Collective Action. London/New York: Routledge Contents: Note on Contributors 1. Introduction Part 1: Events,...
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Latour’s plasma bubbling up…
First at Circling Squares: Latour revisiting ‘Paris: Ville Invisible’, and then at Object-Oriented Philosophy: Latour’s plasma. P.S. Actually I’m sympathetic to both arguments, even though they seem...
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Somewhere in Russia…
…to be more precise, at the Piotrovsky Bookstore in Perm, books on speculative realism, ANT and the like are part of the effort to restore “book culture to its height during the Soviet times.” Hat tip...
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Material Participation
Check out Noortje Marres’s new book, Material Participation: Technology, the Environment and Everyday Publics from Palgrave. A recording of the book launch (involving Javier Lezaun (Oxford), Celia Lury...
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The Device: The Social Life of Method
Keep an eye out for this forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, edited by John Law and Evelyn Ruppert: “The Device: The Social Life of Method.” Two articles seem to be already...
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On Latour and Simondon’s Mode of Existence – fragments of a fictional...
On Latour and Simondon’s Mode of Existence – fragments of a fictional dialogue yet to come. Yuk Hui, intervention given in a Workshop on Latour@ Denkerei, 28 Jan,2013 This intervention from its outset...
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