rhizoANT: Following the Actors & Parasites in Hyperobjects

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.…

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rhizoANT: Following the Actors & Parasites in Hyperobjects

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…

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How Does rhizoANT Work?

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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How Does rhizoANT Work?

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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ANT via Dudhwala: #rhizo15

In her article What is Actor-Network Theory?, Farzana Dudhwala explores actor-network theory (ANT) in positive and negative ways: saying both what ANT does and, by contrast with traditional sociologists, what it does not do. She says that ANT practitioners differ from classical sociologists first in their concept of the social.…

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ANT via Dudhwala: #rhizo15

In her article What is Actor-Network Theory?, Farzana Dudhwala explores actor-network theory (ANT) in positive and negative ways: saying both what ANT does and, by contrast with traditional sociologists, what it does not do. She says that ANT practitioners differ from classical sociologists first in their concept of the social.…

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