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The Politics Of Theory

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  • Andrew Pickering

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This essay explores the politics of theory and how theoretical analysis in science and technology studies might inform real-world conduct. I focus on objects and projects that can serve as ‘ontological theatre’ for a nonmodern perspective -- that both evoke and act out the ontology that I associate with my analysis of ‘the mangle of practice’. These are my models for ‘producing another world’. In conclusion, I contrast this proposal with Latour's political articulation of actor-network theory: Latour aims to reassemble the social at the meta-level of political representation, without modifying our mundane practices, while I am concerned here with possibilities for systematically transforming the latter.

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  • Andrew Pickering, 2009. "The Politics Of Theory," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2(1-2), pages 197-212, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:2:y:2009:i:1-2:p:197-212
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064204
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    1. Paskins, Matthew, 2020. "History of science and its utopian reconstructions," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 109300, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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