Simon Cooper on the limits of Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory
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
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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