CCR 711: discussion slides

1. Nonhumans in
the Workshop
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2. What does this have to
do with craft?
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6. Nonhumans too
have a history. (213)
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7. To conceive of humanity and
technology as polar opposites is,
in effect, to wish away humanity:
we are sociotechnical animals, and
each human interaction is
sociotechnical. (214)
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8. propositions
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9. mediation: interference
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10. enlistment
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11. hybrid actants (180-81)
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12. mediation: composition
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17. Mediation: folding time
and space
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18. blackboxing
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19. Mediation: crossing
boundaries between
signs and things
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20. delegation
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23. “Real artifacts are always parts of institutions, trembling
in their mixed status as mediators, mobilizing faraway
lands and people, ready to become people or things,
not knowing if they are composed of one or of many, of
a black box counting for one or of a labyrinth
concealing multitudes.” (MacKenzie 1990, qtd. in Latour, 193).
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24. collectives
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25. Objects and subjects are made simultaneously, and in
increased number of subjects is directly related to the
number of objects stirred--brewed-- into the collective.
The adjective modern does not describe an increased
distance between society and technology or their
alienation, but a deepened intimacy, a more intricate
mesh, between the two. (196)
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26. social construction (197)
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