On actor-network theory : A few clarifications
On actor-network theory : A few clarifications
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关于行动者网络理论：一些澄清
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1996
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B. Latour
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B. Latour
在过去的几年里，有三种资源被用来处理代理问题。第一个是赋予它们自然性，并将它们与自然联系起来。第二个是赋予他们社会性，并将他们与社会结构联系起来。第三种观点是将它们视为一种符号学建构，并将能动性与意义的建构联系起来。科学研究的原创性来自于无法明确区分这三种资源。微生物、DNA的中微子同时是自然的、社会的和话语的。他们是真实的，人与符号的实体在同一个呼吸。这篇文章探讨了这种特殊情况的后果，在科学研究迫使我们重新联系这三种资源之前，这种情况还没有得到强调。行动者网络理论是由M. Callon和他的同事们试图发明一种词汇来应对这种新情况。本文回顾了这些困难，并试图通过展示如何用它们来解释实体的建构，即自然、社会和意义的归属，来克服这些困难
Three resources have been developed over the ages to deal with agency. The first one is to attribute to them naturality and to link them with nature. The second one is to grant them sociality and to tie them to the social fabric. The third one is to consider them as a semiotic construction and to relate agency with building of meaning. The originality of science studies comes from the impossibility of clearly differentiating between these three resources. Microbes, neutrinos of DNA are at the same time natural, social and discourse. They are real, human and semiotic entities in the same breath. The article explores the consequences of this peculiar situation which has not been underlined before science studies forced us to retie the links between these three resources. The actor-network theory as developed by M. Callon and his colleagues is an attempt to invent a vocabulary to deal with this new situation. The article reviews those difficulties and tries to overcome them by showing how they may be used to account for the construction of entities, that is for the attribution of nature, society and meaning