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### from: NEGOTIATING THE VALUE(S) OF DESIGN(ING)
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#surface #las
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>As Latour (2008) points out:
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From a surface feature in the hands of a not-so-serious-profession
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that added features in the purview of much-more-serious-
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professionals (engineers, scientists, accountants), design has been
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spreading continuously so that it increasingly matters to the very
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substance of production. (p. 2)
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> Latour (1993a) shows that Pasteur—who is essentially
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remembered as a great scientist—was a combination of heterogeneous
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elements, such as notebooks, statistics, bacteria, sheep, laboratories;
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Pasteur-the-great-scientist, the argument goes, did not exist outside of this
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network—he was a network.
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>Commenting on the variety of misinterprations in relation to ‘actor-network theory’,
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Latour (1999a) concedes that a more accurate descriptor for ANT could have been
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‘actant-rhizome ontology.’ Indeed, the ontology of ANT is strongly influenced by the
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work of Gilles Deleuze, whose version of distributed materialism is foundational to the
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notion of ‘network’ as an assemblage of heterogeneous components. For a detailed
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treatment of Deleuze’s assemblage theory see DeLanda (2006; 2016). |