From Arena Journal issue 29/30, 2008. PDF, 135 KB.
The Limits of Latour and Actor Network Theory
The increasing scope and rate of techno-scientific innovation threatens to disrupt some of our fundamental categories of experience. How we understand ourselves and our bodies, our relation to the environment and other realms of the non-human, is changing with respect to processes like genetic engineering, cloning and organ transplantation…
Simon Cooper teaches in film and literary studies at Federation University. He is an Arena Publications editor, an Associate Editor of Arena (third series) and part of the editorial team behind Arena Online. His research areas include literature and film, philosophy, social theory and techno-science.
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