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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Latour"”.
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Technologies and Artworks: An Interdisciplinary Exploration through Ihde and Latour
… Interdisciplinary Exploration through Ihde and Latour discusses and applies the phenomenological framework described by the philosopher of science and technology Don Ihde, in his text Technology and the Lifeworld, in relation to recent artworks of sculpture and performance that incorporate …
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Accounting in action in the New Zealand health reform process: an analysis informed by a specific case study of a major health provider
… using theoretical insights derived from Latour (particularly: 1987, 1993). The research has sought to explicate the change process as a process of translation. Traditional accounting techniques have been explicated as “black box” technology with which the organisation has been redefined …
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Rumo a uma Teoria Social Alternativa (T.S.A): as implicações do vitalismo nas ciências humanas e sociais
… the main works of the French sociologist Bruno Latour, such as "Irreductions", having as background the writings of Graham Harman and many other representatives of OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology). "Irreductions" is actually an appendix to the book "Pasteurization of France", published in 1984. …
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Harry Partch: A Catalyst for Queer Compositionism
… intimately with the human and nonhuman agents (Latour, 2007) that he assembled into his life’s work. I see his protectionism of this assemblage not simply as outsiderism, but as a queer utopian message to arm oneself against the inertia (Becker, 1995) of normalising forces. A methodology centred …
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Discourse formation in architecture exhibitions - an oligoptical approach
… way, architectural discourse is ‘made public’ (Latour, 2005b: 14-43), and the exhibition acts as a discursive space. The first chapter of the thesis locates the origins of these publications in response to debates about autonomy and criticality in architecture that began in the …
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Objects As Polyagents: Tracing The Histories Of The Gweagal Spears
… and ever-expanding networks of association (Latour 1993; 2005). It does so by analysing how such objects become symbols for multiple histories, presences, and political agendas throughout their social lives (Appadurai 1986; Kopytoff 1986). The paper also examines how these objects influence …
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Datenjournalismus: Eine Dekonstruktion aus feldtheoretischer und techniksoziologischer Perspektive
… sowie der Akteur-Netzwerk Theorie (Latour, 2005) als Detailperspektive zielen darauf ab, Erklärungs- und Beschreibungsansätze zu liefern, um mögliche Implikationen für das journalistische Feld darzustellen.
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Technology and social space beyond the modern episteme
… these questions through the work of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Henri Lefebvre. It posits an a-modern, machinic approach to technology and the social that focusses on the distribution of agency rather than the modern preoccupation with identity and the Kantian …
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Towards the Affect of Intimacy
… Heidegger in Das Ding (Heidegger 1951), Latour once framed the wider social role of technologies as res publica or ‘public things’ (Latour 2005). He pointed out that the old German word ‘ding’ etymologically did not only infer ‘material object’ but also to assembly as gathering space - …
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Toward a philosophy of water: Politics of the pollution and damming along the Ganges River.
… the works of the contemporary philosopher Bruno Latour.
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In praise of carbon: Genre and the 1996 Nobel lectures in chemistry by Christian Fredrick Casper
… the hierarchy of scientific statement types of Latour and Woolgar (1979) and the scientific <em>stases</em> and scientific <em>topoi</em> of Prelli (1989), this thesis analyzes the three Nobel lectures in chemistry from 1996 to discern the characteristics of ceremonial discourse in science and …
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A Critical Analysis of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Problems of Knowledge-Legitimation (Strong Programme, Rational Reconstruction, Relativism, Symmetry Thesis)
… the ethnographic case studies of Knorr-Cetina, Latour and Woolgar, and Lynch. Recent criticisms of these authors are also examined at length.
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Analyser une controverse à l'aide de la sociologie de l'acteur réseau : exploration des débats entourant la création du registre national des délinquants sexuels au Canada
… par la sociologie de l’acteur-réseau de Bruno Latour, sont utilisés.
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O corte e o tempo: Uma análise da montagem de filmes de found footage e dos padrões criativos na edição de U.F.O. Abduction, A bruxa de Blair e V/H/S
… ou outra afetividade imagética, estão Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe (2010); Noël Carroll (1999); Kirby Ferguson (2016); David Kekeres (2016); Rodrigo Carreiro (2013); Théodore Flournoy através de Thiago Nilo Santos (2013); Ernst Hans Gombrich através de Jacques Aumont (2012) e Vincent Amiel (2011).
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As controvérsias da regulamentação da ética em pesquisa com seres humanos no Brasil
… de controvérsias desenvolvida por Bruno Latour. Pesquisa qualitativa, do tipo descritiva e com fonte de dados baseada em inscrições disponibilizadas pelos atores envolvidos na internet. Identificação de três momentos: implementação da regulamentação brasileira, visibilidade das …
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Examining One's Own: Reflexivity and Critique in STS
… from the STS tradition, especially from Latour and Haraway, the author proposes a new observational stance; this stance insists on the perspectival nature of all observation, and thereby claims to be reflexively robust; furthermore it maintains an agnostic attitude with regard to the …
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”Fullständigt otillförlitlig, men absolut oumbärlig”. En historiografisk undersökning av projektet Svensk Stad
… from the field of sociology of science (Bruno Latour, Andrew Pickering, Susan Leigh Star och James Griesemer). A third line of inquiry of the dissertation combines the two main lines and analyses the project’s paths to knowledge using concepts from visual studies. The primary empirical material …
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Derecho regateado: cuentos de un acueducto comunitario
… juridificados -junto con sus ensamblajes (Latour, 2009), agencia y redes situadas- que permite aproximarse a la comprensión de la vivencia de la realidad textual de las formas jurídicas como algo irracional, irrepetible, situado, no terminado, caótico y particular. Así, este trabajo propone …
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Политика Чернобыля в Беларуси в 1986-2008 годах: формирование и проявления дискурс-коалиций /
… construction of scientific facts (Callon 1979; Latour 1989, 2004), biopower (Foucault 1996) and the methodology of the discourse-coalitions (Hajer 1995) in this dissertation the constructivist analysis of the politics of Chernobyl is represented. The main hypothesis of this research is to …
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The ambiguity of hybridity : an encounter between constructivism and Latvian sociology
… based on actor-network theory (the work of Bruno Latour in particular), and supplemented with the work of Pierre Bourdieu (his theory of sociology in particular) to examine issues specific to sociology. Via a document and interview-based study of sociology in Latvia set against the background of …
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