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Regulating Hybrid Monsters?

2008: Issue 29/30.
Simon Cooper on the limits of Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory.

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Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory refuses to recognize any kind of qualitative difference in kind between, for example, face-to-face communication and extended forms of virtual communication, or that there is no ontological distinction that might be found in the difference between gift and commodity exchange argues Simon Cooper

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  1. By Arena journal no.29/30 – arena on September 6, 2012 at 11:42 am

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