Actor-Network Theory - Grant Kien

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[@rowanwallace1985]

Thank you Grant! Your explanations are very clear and your voice is very soothing in the storm of my imminent deadline.

[@willco5181]

Very much this

[@josephk7255]

Omg, I have been studying ANT for months.. Your explanation saved me ...

[@DebraKatz]

Wow! What a terrific description Dr. Kien just gave. I listened to several videos before finding this one. I'm going to share it with my Culture and Subjectivity Class at University of West Georgia as Im assigned to facilitate a discussion on Latour's writing this week and I couldn't possibly explain this as eloquently.

[@merdekaagussaputra1504]

Thank you for this clear explanation about ANT. It helps me a lot for my research

[@tsetenbhutia5148]

Thank you for this sir. 🙏🏼💐

[@minimilk_y]

Thank you, this video helped me a lot!

[@InnocentDoodles]

“We can’t separate society from that which comprises it and makes it durable because it’s all part of the same society. There are social and non-social elements, but society is not what holds us together, it is what is held together.” Isn't one of the main tenants of Actor-Network Theory that there ARE NO Non-Social acts???

[@rabbyssi4392]

InnocentDoodles Are all elements which can be considered in ANT acts or performances? If so, then yea you caught him red-handed. But I would say that the non-social elements are elements not yet available for ANT to process because no relations are formed around them. While the non-social elements would be outside the scope of ANT, such elements could also influence performance without our knowledge or awareness. They would remain outside the scope of ANT until they are discovered and thus be directly interacted with. The cool thing is, simply speculating on the relationship between objects deemed “foreign” to social interaction and the social itself instantly brings the object in question into the scope of the theory. You can never point at something outside ANT, but that doesn’t mean there are no things outside ANT. ANT is supposed to bridge the structural and phenomenological , hence the dual function of “mattering”. But it’s not so much that ANT bridges this gap ... WE DO via our socio-cultural performance on material things and through the consequent accruement of power.

[@InnocentDoodles]

@@rabbyssi4392 Lol I wish I had this explanation before the report I was writing was due.

[@Minsyaaa]

Thank you! This was very good

[@muskduh]

Thanks for the video

[@lariomalungana5660]

Wow!!!!!!!!I have a better understanding of this theory now....

[@clairemariachambers6759]

It would be really nice if this came with a bibliography. I'd like to read the references on "translation" especially. Seems like that'd be an easy thing to include in the post.

[@QueenJaneway]

Latour, Reassembling the Social could be helpful.

[@kittysteffan3684]

Thank you, I will take this information for the purpose of my imminent deadline. Well explained, thank you!

[@user-ox1ih9cx3e]

Thanks very much

[@grisia9604]

if there is a ppt with it will be perfect.

[@illiakailli]

yeah ... reading half of the lecture from a laptop is a very good way to engage your viewers. Thanks anyway.

[@ypan1890]

Hmmm...sorry, I still do not understand a bit. Gosh.

[@robinstark1047]

It's a very complex way of describing things but it's useful because our general ways of understanding, presents things as way simpler than they actually are. But still it's very hard I agree and I also still have a lot to learn about it. I will try to explain how I see it not for you but for selfish reasons: so I can write down my thoughts in an disorganised manner. The most important aspect of actor-network theory I believe, is to see objects as things with agency, objects do things with us. So sometimes it is helpful, if we want to understand our behaviours and cultural patterns better, to start from the perspective of an object and it's agency. If we want to understand a classroom we might begin from the perspective of a desk and what it does, how it adds and is part of the classroom (and the classroom should in turn be seen not as a static unchanging thing but as a process a ritual of sorts).

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