Week 12: Society as distributed consciousness
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Required readings: Latour (2005b), Latour (2005c), Latour (2005a)
Supplemental reading: Latour (2005d)
References
Latour, Bruno. 2005a. “Conclusion: From Society to Collective—Can the Social Be Reassembled?” In Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, 247–62. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———. 2005b. “Introduction: How to Resume the Task of Tracing Associations.” In Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, 1–17. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———. 2005c. “On the Difficulty of Being an ANT: An Interlude in the Form of a Dialog.” In Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, 141–56. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———. 2005d. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ANTH 6916: Culture and development—Key concepts
General info: About this seminar, The practice of social theory, Summary of topics and readings, The key tasks of collaborative editing
Seminars: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | B | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Assignments: Essay, Take-home writing assignment, Weekly reflections, Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base