Actor network theory is a powerful approach which combines the insights of post--structuralism with an analysis of the materials of social life. This controversial and path--breaking volume extends ANT beyond studies of technology, power and organisation to the body, subjectivity, politics, and cult[...]
This volume consists of five main parts, with early sections dealing with philosophical and conceptual issues, while the latter sections deal with specific research topics in the social sciences. It uses these topics to explain, for example, the development of capitalist time-consciousness, the ways[...]