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Technologia jako utrwalone społeczeństwoAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 4 (2): 17-49. 2013.
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85Der Pedologenfaden von Boa Vista: Eine photo-philosophische MontageIn Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Michael Hagner & Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt (eds.), Räume des Wissens: Repräsentation, Codierung, Spur, De Gruyter. pp. 213-264. 1996.
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60Zirkulierende Referenz. Bodenstichproben aus dem Urwald am AmazonasIn Jan Wöpking, Christoph Ernst & Birgit Schneider (eds.), Diagrammatik-Reader: Grundlegende Texte Aus Theorie Und Geschichte, De Gruyter. pp. 173-178. 2016.
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8Biographie d'une enquête. À propos d'un livre sur les modes d'existenceArchives de Philosophie 75 (4): 549-566. 2012.Résumé La publication de l’ Enquête sur les modes d’existence (La découverte 2012), peut être quelque peu éclairée par un bref retour en arrière sur les étapes successives de cette anthropologie des Modernes commencée un quart de siècle auparavant. L’article reprend donc le cheminement intellectuel, commencé avec l’exégèse biblique puis continué dans « l’exégèse » des sciences et des techniques, qui a mené peu à peu à la présente enquête.
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219Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of ConcernCritical Inquiry 30 (2): 225-248. 2004.
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121Don't throw the baby out with the bath school! A reply to Collins and YearleyIn Andrew Pickering (ed.), Science as Practice and Culture, University of Chicago Press. pp. 343--368. 1992.
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26Is Re-modernization Occurring - And If So, How to Prove It?Theory, Culture and Society 20 (2): 35-48. 2003.On the face of it, there is no connection between the social theory developed by Ulrich Beck under the name of `second modernization' and the post-ethnomethodological argument developed by Bruno Latour and his colleagues under the name of actor-network theory. Yet they are both concerned with empirical evidence of a major shift in modernity. Hence the idea of elaborating an empirical test to probe the extent to which `second modernization' is a real phenomenon, or rather, as is suggested here, a…Read more
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12From realpolitik to dingpolitikIn Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel (eds.), Making Things Public, Mit Press. pp. 14--44. 2005.
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19Social Control and Multiple Discovery in Science: The Opiate Receptor Case by Susan E. Cozzens (review)Isis 84 194-195. 1993.
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36Can We Get Our Materialism Back, Please?Isis 98 138-142. 2007.Technology is epistemology’s poor relative. It still carries the baggage of a definition of matter handed down to it by another odd definition of scientific activity. The consequence is that many descriptions of “things” have nothing “thingly” about them. They are simply “objects” mistaken for things. Hence the necessity of a new descriptive style that circumvents the limits of the materialist definition of material existence. This is what has been achieved in the group of essays on “Thick Thing…Read more
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25A Few Steps Toward an Anthropology of the Iconoclastic GestureScience in Context 10 (1): 63-83. 1997.The ArgumentA large part of our critical acumen depends on a clear distinction between what is real and what is constructed, what is out there in the nature of things and what is in there in the representation we make of them. Something has been lost however for the sake of this clarity and a heavy price has been paid for this dichotomy between ontological questions on the one hand and the epistemological questions on the other: it has become impossible to understand the simplest features of act…Read more
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163Postmodern? No, Simply A m odern! Steps Towards an Anthropology of ScienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (1): 145-171. 1990.
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74How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science StudiesBody and Society 10 (2-3): 205-229. 2004.Science studies has often been against the normative dimension of epistemology, which made a naturalistic study of science impossible. But this is not to say that a new type of normativity cannot be detected at work inscience studies. This is especially true in the second wave of studies dealing with the body, which has aimed at criticizing the physicalization of the body without falling into the various traps of a phenomenology simply added to a physical substrate. This article explores the wor…Read more
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3Do scientific objects have a history? Pasteur and Whitehead in a bath of lactic acidCommon Knowledge 5 76-91. 1996.
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72We have never been modernHarvard University Press. 1993.A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and ...
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84MORALITY OR MORALISM? An Exercise in SensitizationCommon Knowledge 16 (2): 311-330. 2010.The field of “science studies” has often been suspected of dubious moral grounds because of its intensive concern with nonhumans; the accusation is made by those who use a roughly Kantian definition of what it is to occupy the moral high ground. By evaluating four contrasting texts (by Comte-Sponville, Kant, Serres, and Lovelock) in tandem, this article explores what an “objective morality” would look like, and it considers how to compare the Kantian axiology with the actor-network theory's poss…Read more