One of the great things about blogging within a community of scholars is that you can’t run out of ideas. My community keeps giving me new things to write—not always in the direction that I intend to go, but always in good, productive directions.…
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Loading...One of the great things about blogging within a community of scholars is that you can’t run out of ideas. My community keeps giving me new things to write—not always in the direction that I intend to go, but always in good, productive directions.For…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As a way of understanding actor-network theory (ANT), I’m reading into object oriented ontology (OOO), starting with Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects, which I think will help me explain why ANT tends to place both human and non-human objects on an equal ontological basis.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As a way of understanding actor-network theory (ANT), I’m reading into object oriented ontology (OOO), starting with Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects, which I think will help me explain why ANT tends to place both human and non-human objects on an equal ontological basis.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my research with the Rhizo swarm, I have read enough actor-network theory to know that ANT practitioners give nonhuman actors equal status to human actors, flattening the field of reality and removing humans from their position of privilege. But I wasn’t sure why ANT did that and on what basis it rendered reality flat.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my research with the Rhizo swarm, I have read enough actor-network theory to know that ANT practitioners give nonhuman actors equal status to human actors, flattening the field of reality and removing humans from their position of privilege. But I wasn’t sure why ANT did that and on what basis it rendered reality flat.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I want to start with a little movie that I made using a Google Chrome extension called Draftback. The movie is a playback of a group of Rhizo14 people writing The Untext last October, 2014. Unfortunately, Draftback does not capture formatting, images, or marginalia, but it does provide a point of view on the emergence of The Untext that I have not been able to generate any other way.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I want to start with a little movie that I made using a Google Chrome extension called Draftback. The movie is a playback of a group of Rhizo14 people writing The Untext last October, 2014. Unfortunately, Draftback does not capture formatting, images, or marginalia, but it does provide a point of view on the emergence of The Untext that I have not been able to generate any other way.I…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my previous post, I summarized Farzana Dudhwala’s article What is Actor-Network Theory?, but I didn’t really explore what it might mean for the rhizo14 collaborative autoethnography (CAE). I want to do that here.
I start with Dudhwala’s first observation that for ANT, the social is a network of relations and “does not exist as an objective reality prior to the research having even begun” (3).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my previous post, I summarized Farzana Dudhwala’s article What is Actor-Network Theory?, but I didn’t really explore what it might mean for the rhizo14 collaborative autoethnography (CAE). I want to do that here.I start with Dudhwala’s first observation that for ANT, the social is a network of relations and “does not exist as an objective reality prior to the research having even begun” (3).…
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