Prašom ragauti ‘Latour 1991’

Latour - A Tree Visualisation System

This paper presents some of the most important features of a tree visualisation system called Latour, developed for the purposes of information visualisation. This system includes a number of interesting and unique characteristics, for example the provision for visual cues based on complexity metrics on graphs, which represent general principles that, in our view, graph based information visual...

X - morphising : review essay of Bruno Latour ' s Aramis

An extended review is presented of Bruno Latour's book Aramis, or the Love of Technology (Harvard University Press, 1996). Attention is paid to the textual style and strategies in the book, and also to how it fits in with, and exemplifies, many of the more abstract claims central to Latour's actor-network theory. In particular, consideration is given to the provocative arguments in the book abo...

Structuralism’s Afters: Tracing Transdisciplinarity through Guattari and Latour

This article analyses Guattari's and Latour's bodies of work as radical developers of a processual and ontological transdisciplinarity. These works impose a definitive break from the history that, in the 1960s, had drawn upon structuralism in order to oppose philosophy with an epistemological revolution from the perspective of a scientific problematization and first transdisciplinary reconfigur...

Bruno Latour: A Philosophical Critic of ‘Facts’ and ‘Modernity’

Dawkins and Latour: A Tale of Two Unlikely Fellows

Two popular, yet highly controversial concepts of non-human agency from two different fields of knowledge are compared in this essay: the theory of the selfish gene, introduced into neo-Darwinian evolutionary biology by Richard Dawkins, and actor-network theory, as brought forward in science & technology studies by Bruno Latour. It is argued that the two theories, despite all apparent differenc...