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The social, cosmopolitanism and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
First, this article will outline the metaphysics of ‘the social’ that implicitly and explicitly connects the work of lassical and contemporary cosmopolitan sociologists as different as Durkheim, Weber, Beck and Luhmann. In a second step, I will show that
Appiah, K.A.   +40 more
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Digital culture, materiality and Nineteenth-Century studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The rhetoric of the virtual stubbornly clings to digital culture, even though our experience of working within it is of a resisting medium that only behaves in certain ways.
Mussell, James
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On Latour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Public relations plays a key role in the communication processes that forge alliances and coalitions in order to strengthen the position of the organization in society. Using the theories of the French sociologist/anthropologist/philosopher Bruno Latour, public relations practitioners can be studied as important participants in the construction of so ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Latour, Foucault, and Post-Truth: The Role and Function of Critique in the Era of the Truth Crisis

open access: yesGenealogy+Critique, 2020
This paper, first published in German in Le foucaldien 4, no. 1 (2018), explores Bruno Latour's critique of contemporary critical theory. According to Latour, poststructuralist conceptions of critical inquiry are becoming increasingly outdated.
Matthias Flatscher, Sergej Seitz
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Constituting best practice in management consulting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper offers critical reflections on the construction and propagation of ‘best practice’: a concept which has become increasingly important in the business world and in civic life more generally.
Collins, David
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Restoring balance : how history tilts the scales against privacy : an actor-network theory investigation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper we problematize the metaphor of balance employed in the area of information privacy. Using Actor-Network Theory we conduct an historical investigation into the continuous release of the same personal data over the course of eight decades ...
Bonner, Bill   +2 more
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Towards practice-based studies of HRM: an actor-network and communities of practice informed approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
HRM may have become co-terminus with the new managerialism in the rhetorical orthodoxies of the HRM textbooks and other platforms for its professional claims.
Burrell G.   +30 more
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Why we should see international law as a structure: Unpicking international law’s ontology and agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article identifies how three dominant ideas of international law (as a process, an institution and a practice) see its agency, concluding that all three share a reluctance to see international law as doing anything more than enabling the operation ...
Sinclair, Adriana
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Filosofía orientada a los objetos y la comprensión de las realidades científicas

open access: yesAthenea Digital, 2011
En este ensayo reflexiono sobre el primer tratado consagrado a la metafísica de Bruno Latour, la obra de Graham Harman Prince of Networks. Explico cómo Harman pone de relieve las raíces y principios de la filosofía orientada a los objetos latouriana ...
Paloma García Díaz
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Bruno Latour and actor-network-theory [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2012
This paper identifies the key moments in the development of Actor-Network-Theory through several important work by Bruno Latour. It is possible to discern a number of departures from the initial position of the author (articulated in Laboratory Life ...
Filipović Božidar
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