[Air-l] Re: Latour for Dummies

[neice at kw.igs.net]

Hi Bruce,

A suggestion - start with some shorter, earlier treatments, and 
avoid secondary commentators. For Latour, action speaks louder 
than words and what goes on in minds is almost incidental. 
Three possibilities - all pre-web.    
1) Strum, S. and Latour, B. (1999 [1987]) 'Redefining the social 
link: from baboons to humans', in MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. 
The Social Shaping of Technology (2nd edition), Philadelphia: The 
Open University Press
2) Callon, M. (1986) 'Some elements of a sociology of translation: 
domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St. Brieuc Bay' 
in Law, J. Power, Action and Belief: A new sociology of 
knowledge?, Sociological Review Monograph # 32, London: 
Routledge & Kegan Paul.
3) Latour, B. (1986) 'The powers of association' in the same volume 
as the previous citation.

Cheers,
david neice    
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