Open comments on Blok & Bruun Jensen's paper ‘What next for actor network theory? Inventing around Latour on a planet in distress’

Abstract

My comment mostly underlines the inadequacy of the tone of the paper, very critical about the way Latour has been criticized on one side, and somehow dogmatic on the other, in the way the authors present. Latour's propositions, from Actor Network Theory (ANT) to the Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (IME), though himself conceived them as proposals to be discussed, modified, criticized, something himself and Callon had done very early about ANT, in 1999.

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Latour Actor Network Theory inquiry into modes of existence debate propositional writing

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Blok A and Jensen CB (2024) What next for actor network theory? Inventing around Latour on a planet in distress. Dialogues in Sociology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/29768667241285397.