From "After ANT: complexity, naming and topology" (p. 10) -- relevant to
both threads of response to the (2) readings:
"For these attempts to convert actor-network theory [read "theory"] into a
fixed point, a specific series of claims.... a territory with fixed
attributes also strain to turn it into a single location. Into a
strongpoint, a fortress, which has achieved the double satisfactions of
clarity and self-identity. But al of this is a nonsense for, to the extent
that it is actually alive, to the extent that it does work.... this thing
we call actor network [or whatever] theory also transforms itself..... Only
dead theories and dead practices celebrate their self-identity. Only dead
theories and dead practices hang on to their names, insist upon their
perfect reproduction. Only dead theories and dead practices seek to
reflect, in every detail, the practices which came before."
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