Notes on the Theory of the Actor Network: Ordering, Strategy and Heterogeneity
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Introduction Just occasionally we find ourselves watching on the sidelines as an order comes crashing down. Organisations or systems which we had always taken for granted -the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Continental Illinois -are swallowed up. Commissars, moguls and captains of industry disappear from view. These dangerous moments offer more than political promise. For when the hidden trapdoors of the social spring open we suddenly learn that the masters of the universe may also have feet of clay.
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