Atdtda29: Any part of their day, 835/: Bruno Latour

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

I like Latour (as a public person), but sometimes he's really writing silly stuff ...
Look, the Cuba-crisis was 'macro', but if you and I meet by accident in the
supermarket and start to discuss Cheddarcheese quality this is --- unless you're
working for the cheese-industry which would perhaps make it 'middle-range'
--- most definitely 'micro' ... Trust me, I'm a sociologist! Kai
 
Paul Nightingale wrote:> Cf. also Latour on the local/global distinction:> > > The problem is that social scientists use scale as one of the many variables> they need to set up before doing the study, whereas scale is what actors> achieve by scaling, spacing and contextualising each other through the> transportation in some specific vehicles of some specific traces. It is of> little use to respect the actors' achievements if in the end we deny them> one of their most important privileges, namely that they are the ones> defining relative scale. It's not the analyst's job to impose one. [...]> > ... it is not the sociologist's business to decide whether any given> interaction is 'micro' while some other one would be 'middle-range' or> 'macro'.> > From: Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social, Oxford, 2005, 183-184.> 
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