Bruno Latour

philosopher · 7 mentions across 4 readings

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Bruno Latour is a sociologist of science and technology known for theorizing networks where humans and nonhumans (machines, microbes, objects) are equally consequential actors in shaping reality. The course readings invoke him to characterize the unprecedented intimacy and scale of contemporary human-machine entanglement, suggesting that understanding modern technologies—from gambling systems to AI—requires abandoning the notion that humans and machines are separate categories that merely interact. His actor-network theory provides the conceptual scaffolding for treating algorithmic systems not as external tools but as participants in hybrid collectives that remake both society and subjectivity.

Mentioned in 4 readings

Natasha Dow Schüll

from Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

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In a historical moment when transactions between humans and machines unfold “at an ever greater level of intimacy and on an ever greater scale” (as the sociologist Bruno Latour has written), computers, video games, mobile phones, iPods, and…Given that this state can only exist as a function of the dynamic interaction between player and machine, it is impossible to understand contemporary machine gambling “without taking into account [the] transformation of technology and the a…In a strategic response to growing suggestions that gambling machines are to some extent implicated in gambling addiction, the American Gaming Association released a 2010 white paper called “Demystifying Slot Machines.” Echoing the National…

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Ben Woodard

from Slime Dynamics

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Karen Barad

Agential Realism, from Meeting the Universe Halfway

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In what follows, I provide a detailed explication of this agential realist ontology. I begin with a detailed examination of the nature of the apparatus, including two significant analytical shifts that are important emendations to Bohr’s fo…

Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

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and of groups that one can come up with an intelligence of the intermediary and non-mixed being that is the technological individual... The dialogue of capital and labor is false, because it is in the past. The socialization of the means of…

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