Actor Network Modernity and Capitalism 2400-OG-EN-ANM
There are three aims of the class: 1. To learn the basics of Actor-Network Theory (ANT); 2. To learn basics of the selected models of Modernity (i.e. developed by A. Giddens, U. Beck, I. Wallerstein, J.W. Moore); 3. Discuss the models in the context of ANT and why, according to ANT – “we have never been modern”.
1. To fulfill aim no. 1 we discuss the basics of ANT, and how it differs from “traditional sociology”, this in turn will lead to the analysis of the philosophical presuppositions of ANT. We try to use such concepts as agency, rhizome, circulation, actor, humans and non-humans, assemblages and others. We also learn why you always need follow the actors, and also why in order to do ANT you need to be an ant.
2. The second aim will require discussions about the selected models of Modernity.
3. To fulfill task no. 3 we first learn why ANT says that “we have never been modern” only to move in step two to attempts to juxtapose ANT with the selected models of modernity.
Całkowity nakład pracy studenta
Efekty uczenia się - wiedza
Efekty uczenia się - umiejętności
Metody dydaktyczne
Wymagania wstępne
Kryteria oceniania
Participation in discussion. Doing homeworks. Presentation of homeworks. Text analysis.
Literatura
Beck, Ulrich. 1992. Risk Society. Towards a New Modernity. London: SAGE Publications.
Callon, Michel. 1986. The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the Electric Vehicle, w: Michel Callon, John Law, Arie Rip (red.), Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology, The MacMillan Press Ltd., s. 19-34.
Giddens, Anthony. 1990. The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and Self-Identity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Latour, Bruno. 1987. Science in Action, How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Latour, Bruno. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern, transl. Catherine Porter, Simon & Schuster, New York, London i in.: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Latour, Bruno. 1999. Pandora’s Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press.
Latour, Bruno. 1999. On recalling ANT, w: John Law, John Hassard (red.), Actor Network Theory and After, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, s. 15-25.
Latour, Bruno. 2004. Politics of Nature. How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, Cambridge, Massechusetts, London: Harvard University Press.
Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, New York: Oxford University Press.
Law, John. 1991. Introduction: monsters, machines and sociotechnical relations, w: John Law (red.), A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination, London, New York: Routlege, s. 1-23.
Law, John. 1999. After ANT: complexity, naming and topology, w: John Law, John Hassard (red.), Actor Network Theory and After, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, s. 1-14.
Law, John i Annemarie Mol. 1995. Notes on materiality and sociality, w: The Sociological Review, vol. 43, nr 2, maj, s. 274-294.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. World-System Analysis. An Introduction. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
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