A Brief Explanation of Bruno Latour's Actor Network Theory

This was an assignment for a multimedia course I did in university - to understand and explain Bruno Latour's Actor Network Theory (ANT).
I used Unity3D to create the environments and used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the video. Kindly wear headphones to enjoy the 8D audio :)

[@fear_less_2020]

Good Lord, Aditi and team!! This was by far the best explanation of the beautiful ANT. I am a master's student studying HCI at UW, Seattle. I am immensely thankful to you and your entire team. As a reviewer, you video has excellent use of 3D visuals to explain the concept, the music builds up the mysterious vibe, the voice of the narrator - the pauses and the voice modulation are aligning with the whole vibe of this creation. Latour's theory has been done full justice by this masterpiece that you all have created. Please accept my regards. This made my day!

[@adimonga]

There is no team, it's just me haha. Your comment made my day, thank you!

[@Lily-cl6zk]

this is crazy... im revising for my finals and now i feel like ive taken some hallucinogenics, this animation feels so wild,, thank you aditi

[@he_knows4962]

This was so well composed and explained! Thanks for a brilliant demonstration of ANT:)

[@Muffin7899]

This was so helpful and very well explained, thank you so much!

[@beth4354]

This is a beautiful informative video! Thanks so much for making!

[@anonymeerdbeere4238]

You‘re brilliant! 💪 Thanks a million for sharing; this helps me a lot with research for my Bachelor thesis!

[@michaelpage4113]

What an excellent resource! Great explanations, and visually and auditorily stunning!

[@sadafbiglari6746]

Amazing work!! Loved it!! Thank you so much!

[@Sumaiyahbh]

This was such a fascinating watch! Amazing!! 👌

[@HERMEMBERSONLY]

This Video was Epic, I would love to see so much more of your content.

[@nagarover3330]

Wonderfully illustrated. Anticipating for more. 🤝 Thank you

[@s0ur_t00th2]

this explanation is so clear and understandable as well as theoretical. thank you!!

[@eeogieeeogie1325]

This is very brilliant..you simplified the theory for easier understanding

[@williamfunes2740]

Beautiful! Very informative and well made.

[@RelaxedLikeaCat]

Fantastic! I'd love to see a sequel or an extended version of this.

[@adimonga]

This was for an academic assignment, I haven't really thought about making a sequel ever since I finished the course >.< But I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it, thank you for watching and your kind comments!

[@aasthahazarika]

Aditi, I absolutely loved the video; the comprehensiveness, the visuals and the music. Hoping to see more explanatory videos from you. Best wishes!

[@kyraocity]

This is brilliant. Thank you

[@sydneydelix6071]

I hope you got a whopping grade for this assignment, because the composition and explaination is amazing!

[@victoriaforkel]

Thank you for this easily understandable and beautiful video!

[@lamiyasami2439]

Love it! thank you for the video

[@SeekersofUnity]

Wonderfully done.

[@NightmareCourtPictures]

I have a theory that network theories can describe the strange darkmatter rotation in galaxy's. Think about an object like a liquid. You stir it around, and the outermost circumference of the liquid trails behind as you expect. But now you take a more solid object like a top, and you spin it around. The outer circumference spins with it. What really is the difference between water and the top? It's the connection between the atoms...a liquid is less connected then a solid. So think about Dark Matter in Galaxy rotation. Does dark matter actually exist? Or rather, is it just that the objects in these galaxies are connected like a complex network that makes the galaxy spin as if it were a top rather than a liquid. In addition I believe that network theories conserve locality, which is a hot debated topic in physics right now. Thinking about notions of distance like in this video. You have the Cake and the constituent's that came from the farm that made the cake. If you were to draw some notion of distance between these two elements, you realize that the notion of distance between them is based on how connected the network is. In this way, if you were to draw such a network on a graph, the length of the connection between elements becomes trivially non-important...that an element 10 light years away, might be highly connected to an element as if it were 5 meters away. So the notion of space might just be defined as a kind of network of connections. These connections actually define notions of distances, and this preserves the idea that things are "local" because the notion of locality is not based on Euclidean geometry but network topology. Cheers,

[@HERMEMBERSONLY]

Incredible Food for Thought, Thanks for Sharing

[@dgkalakar]

This is really cool. Good job!

[@Razedrisk]

Thank you! This was really cool and helpful :D

[@e.d.1642]

The thing is that Latour's ftamework is still centered on how things are *for humans*. He will only consider animals as actants in networks whose parameters are dictated by humans, but won't consider networks considered from the points of view of the animals themselves. He hides the subject-object duality but still adopts a point of view that's arbitrary.

[@aliceyagami9371]

Thanks for your video！It's so beautiful

[@nicolecampos4779]

this is excellent! thanks so much!

[@adrianaliaga7109]

¡Excelente! Thank you so much :)

[@KidFictionOfficial]

This was amazing 🤯🤯🤯

[@sedgeflower]

This actually really helped me start to think about actor-network theory, especially the animation of rotating interconnected nodes. I'm curious what your inspiration was for that element

[@adimonga]

Thank you! I'm just a very visual person, so when I read about his theory, this was just something that I thought of. No particular inspiration per se :)

[@giraffelava]

thank for thiss

[@hanawana]

lovely animating :))

[@lolalulz684]

Really good work!

[@agostinabuono5925]

This is great! thanks

[@saskiawilson-brown1912]

Nicely done.

[@amberlowe4022]

Very infomartive. Cool story bro

[@puneetjain5625]

Okay who are you? I find your work interesting. Thanks for this video :)

[@tanyaandfafasvlogszimbabwe8291]

This is really helpful

[@spring5058]

Excellent 👍

[@khanidrees881]

True and relevant for our age!

[@alimidamilolabarakat9947]

Helpful! thank you.

[@tinotendamunemo1373]

Really helpful, thanks

[@aparrajithaariyadasa]

Super explanation.

[@monarchwadia9518]

This reminds me of several concepts from buddhist philosophy: interdependent origination, shunyata, annatta, and indras net.

[@nkvk2810]

We have to take ANT seriously. The relationships in what we know as the Universe are highly interconnected and interdependent. Think about how life on Earth is partly possible due to the Sun which is millions of kilometers away. We humans have to humble ourselves!

[@lioly8282]

'Everything is nothing but a host of atoms'

[@maganothomas123]

Very helpful…my exams are coming up and I was discouraged but this helped me…

[@adimonga]

Glad to hear, good luck for your exam!

[@tietscho]

Very nice explained

[@elenapena7020]

hahaha te presentation is sickkk thank you!!

[@quambambalujimini81]

that was great

[@martinkaspar5095]

awesome

[@hssy2jrocker]

You are lit!

[@paridhiagarwal5677]

Wow!!

[@kyraocity]

How long did it take to do this? And was this a class or work project or an independent effort?

[@adimonga]

Hi! Thank you for taking the time to comment. The entire project (including research) took me a little over a week, but the actual technical work (including script writing) took me around 2 days. This was an individual project for a class 😊

[@he_knows4962]

@@adimonga That's impressive! Keep up the solid work and you'll get far no doubt:)

[@watcher8582]

Thanks.

[@Fryguystudios]

What I don't understand is: what distinguishes actor network theory from Deleuzian rhizomes?

[@kullervo_k]

Assemblages, networks and rhizomes all somewhat refer to similar things but are used in different contexts and have different origins. A network refers to nodes and their one or two-directional interconnections, nothing more. A rhizome is a type of network that can grow in any direction from any node, that doesn't have a central point and that should not be thought of as one "unity" but instead a collection of various things that have interconnected together. Assemblage is a concept referring to a network of various interconnected objects including humans and non-humans and the meanings that these interactions produce. Assemblages are often considered to be rhizomatic. Actor-network theory and assemblage-thinking have a lot in common but actor-network theory also often comes bundled with some theoretical concepts that assemblages do not, for example "actants" or "translation".

[@siddhiadvankar6649]

Why this terrifying music?

[@arizafra7349]

Great and beautiful 😍

[@asardar2518]

The background music is spooky

[@adimonga]

I wouldn't want to hear this in the middle of the night either xD

[@hadd5106]

Does a birthday cake have consciousness?

[@srtarditi]

Someone's into quantum theory and/or psychedelics :)

[@adimonga]

Haha not really, if it weren't for my academic courses and assignments I wouldn't have delved into this >.< But a really interesting concept, got me thinking about a lot of things!

[@standesmet8937]

wtf, kutsoundtrack