Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Ed Summers - GoodreadsI picked this up because folks over on the Philosophy in a Time of Software kicked things off by discussing this book by Latour. So, I'm really not terribly knowledgeable about sociology, but I did a ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Ivana - GoodreadsI especially recommend the Interview On the Difficulty of Being an ANT - from page 141 on. Funny, provocative and sarcastic explanation of Actor Network "Theory" and some further Latourīs notes on research, knowledge and social science. Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Joshua Stein - GoodreadsLatour is a great writer and has a number of interesting ideas. I realize that the book is a controversial part of the canon of science studies, and that it has a lot of value to those scholars who ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Theresa Macphail - GoodreadsFor an author that champions good writing, this book is often a poor example of it. This is Latour's attempt to lay out what a handful of STS scholars had already been practicing for 25 years - the ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Margarita - GoodreadsAn entertaining and useful social theory book - as far as that goes, anyway. I like Latour's humour and readability, and I like his Actor-Network Theory all the more for it. Actually, I really wish I ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Meghan Fidler - GoodreadsWhat happens when a theorist becomes "the" theorist of a moment? While this book has strong points, the continual pot-shots at every established academic field probably serves more to close minds ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Alexander Boland - GoodreadsGetting back into this book now. At the time it seemed like it might be a lot of abstruseness referring to nothing, but at it's heart is a thesis worth taking seriously: that treating humans as beings ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - You - GoodreadsThe term 'nonhumans,' through the workings of its prefix of negation ('non-'), designates a totality without having to positively decree its boundaries. As a consequence, all categorical differences ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Elizabeth - GoodreadsI'm a huge fan of Latour and his philosophies/ideas generally, but this book (which is supposed to walk readers, expressly graduate students, through the rationales of and for ANT) is obtuse and ... Read full review
Review: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
User Review - Dan Gibbons - GoodreadsVery interesting exposition of Actor-Network theory... difficult to follow at times but Latour makes good points. Read full review
