LATOUR, Bruno. 1988. The Pasteurization of France. (Trads. Alan Sheridan; John Law). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [1984] PÓS-SOCIAL: The exact sciences elude social analysis not because they are distant or separated from society, but because they revolutionize the very conception of society and of what it comprises. (Latour 1988:38) I do not talk of “society,” because the associations that concern […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1986. The powers of association. In: John Law (ed.). Power, action and belief: a new Sociology of Knowledge? London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp.264-80. POWER RESULTS FROM ACTION It appears that power is not something one can possess – indeed it must be treated as a consequence rather than as a cause of action. (Latour 1986:264) PARADOXOS (ter-poder-potencial-teoria […]
CALLON, Michel; LATOUR, Bruno. 1981. Unscrewing the big Leviathan: how actors macro-structure reality and how sociologists help them to do so. In: K. Knorr-Cetina; A.V. Cicourel (eds.). Advances in social theory and methodology: toward and integration of micro- and macro-Sociologies. Boston: Routledge; Kegan Paul, pp.277-303. HOBBES’S PARADOX: For Hobbes – and for us too – it is not a question […]
STRUM, Shirley S.; LATOUR, Bruno. 1987. Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans. Social Science Information 26(4):783-802. :::::::::: REDEFINING THE NOTION OF SOCIAL :. OSTENSIVE vs. PERFORMATIVE: In the last two decades this ostensive definition of society has been challenged by ethnomethodology (Garfinkel, 1967) and by the sociology of science (Knorr and Mulkay, 1983), especially of the social sciences […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1994. On technical mediation: Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy. Common Knowledge 3(2):29-64. DAEDALION & TECHNOLOGY (desvio, estratégia, mediação e evolução-civilização): No unmediated action is possible once we enter the realm of engineers and craftsmen. A daedalion, in Greek, is something curved, veering from the straight line, artful but fake, beautiful and contrived. […] Daedalus is our best eponym for technique […]
GELL, Alfred. 1988. Technology and magic. Anthropology Today 4(2):6-9. Em “Technology and Magic”, Gell propõe uma relação produtiva entre tecnologia – definida como “a busca de objetivos difíceis através de meios indiretos” – e magia – definida como um “procedimento técnico ideal”. Na primeira parte do texto, dedicada à tecnologia, Gell argumenta que a “tecnologia” não se limita às ferramentas, […]
COMBES, Muriel. 2002. Une vie à naître. In: Pascal Chabot (coord). Simondon. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, pp.31-51. DEFINIÇÃO DE SUJEITO Pour le dire de manière raccourcie, ce que Simondon nomme sujet, c’est l’individu vivant en tant qu’associé à une réalité préindividuelle capable de provoquer sa participation à l’individuation d’un collectif. (Combes 2002:31) VISÃO e DISPARAÇÃO (resolução sem simplificação) [L]e […]
FERNANDES, Florestan. 1974. O que é a Sociologia? In: Elementos de sociologia teórica. São Paulo: Editora Nacional, pp.19-32. [1959] ORDEM SOCIAL: [A] ordem social, inerente às diversas modalidades de manifestação organizada da vida, oferece o ponto de referência através do qual os fenômenos socials devem ser descritos sociologicamente. (Fernandes 1974:21) SOCIEDADE e NATUREZA: [O]s organismos vivem em condições que convertem […]
DURKHEIM, Émile. 2002. Les règles de la méthode sociologique. Chicoutimi: Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales. [1894]. Mais, en réalité, aussi loin qu’on remonte dans l’histoire, le fait de l’association est le plus obligatoire de tous ; car il est la source de toutes les autres obligations. (Durkheim 2002:62) Mais, dira-t-on, puisque les seuls éléments dont est formée la société sont […]
Etymonline: Online Etimology Dictionary fiction (n.) early 15c., ficcioun, “that which is invented or imagined in the mind,” from Old French ficcion “dissimulation, ruse; invention, fabrication” (13c.) and directly from Latin fictionem (nominative fictio) “a fashioning or feigning,” noun of action from past participle stem of fingere “to shape, form, devise, feign,” originally “to knead, form out of clay,” from […]
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