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On Recalling Ant

The Sociological Review· 1999-05-01· article· 1,465 citationsclosed

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Abstract

The paper explores one after the other the four difficulties of actor-network theory, that is the words ‘actor’, ‘network’ and ‘theory’—without forgetting the hyphen. It tries to refocus the originality of what is more a method to deploy the actor's own world building activities than an alternative social theory. Finally, it sketches some of its remaining potential.

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Bruno Latour (1999). On Recalling Ant. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1999.tb03480.x

@article{bruno1999on,
  title  = {On Recalling Ant},
  author = {Latour, Bruno},
  year   = {1999},
  journal = {The Sociological Review},
  doi    = {10.1111/j.1467-954x.1999.tb03480.x}
}

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