Pandoras hope a reading part 2

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Pandoras hope - a reading part 2
Eric Monteiro, NTNU and Univ. of Oslo Oslo,
spring 2000
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The issues chapter 6 (mostly)

• Control - drift
• dynamics - unfolding process
• never in isolation, collective

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The analogies

• A reference (ch. 2) - a floating thing
  (sequence of small steps, not one big one)
• (chapter 3) reiterating the how context is also
  gliding
• similarly now gliding difference subject and
  object

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The essence

• Action is never straight !
• labyrinth (daedalion)
• mediated
• collective (including non-humans)

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Context translation (ch. 3) - no control
The operation of translation constists of
combining two hitherto different interests to
form a single composite goal There is a drift,
a slippage, a displacement, whichmay be tiny
or infinetely large... To study a single
negotiation or translation in isolation would
be useless. (pp. 89-90)
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Heidegger (a la Claudio)

• Technology not only tool - we become intsruments
  ourselves
• Gestell - technology is omnipresent
• wrong!

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Gunsn people

• guns kill people
• materialist
• no change in guns or people
• people kill people
• sociology/ social contruction
• Latour translation drift!

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Mediation
I used translation to mean displacement, drift,
invention, mediation, the creation of a link that
did not exist before and that to some degree
modifies the original two interests You are a
different person with a gun in your hand. The
gun is different with you holding it. (p.
179)
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Symmetrical control

• Whos in control of who?
• Who enlists the other?
• who is subordinate to who?
• Symmetrical!

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The Foucaultian heritage

• Dont start with essence (subject and object)
• study performatives, transformation
• action is performative - its not someone in
  perfect control imposing something

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Behaviourism
From an observers point of view it does not
matter through which channel a given behavior is
attained the chanceller sees and for her that
is enough (p. 186)
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Composition

• Subprograms
• we attribute the role of a prime mover but

Action is simply not a property of humans but of
an association of actants (p. 182)
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Retracing tracks

• We cover up all the subprograms - they disappear

The speed bump is ultimately not made of matter
is is full of engineers and chancellors and
lawmakers (p. 190)
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The collective

• Purposeful action is property of ensemble
• Real artefacts are always part of institutions

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Bot relativism

• Not everything into the same pot
• Scale of collectives
• number of humans and non-h enlisted
• length of chains
• modern more intimacy, closer mesh!

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Genealogy

• Uniform approach
• micro - meso - macro