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ANT... for Actor Network Theory. I look at the acronym and think, "not another learning theory!" NALT. I could feel my eyeballs starting to roll back in their sockets, just like the reaction to analytics, just as confusing but not as useful. Persistently (and sometimes perversely) self-regulated learner that I am, off I went looking for more about ANT. See cross-disciplinary selection below, faves highlighted.
- LaaN vs Actor Network Theory
- Space and Culture book review (actor network theory and urban studies)
- Presentation on Actor Network Theory (UCB, sociology and CS)
- Actor Network Theory (ANT), from "Thoughts, writing & snippets" blog
- Actor Network Theory in Plain English [video]
- Network theories for technology-enabled learning and social change: Connectivism and actor network theory (pdf)
- When all that is theory melts into (hot) air (pdf)
- actor-network theory and a composition program
- Why did actor network theory run out of steam?
I'm not the only one wondering "why ANT?" My mind went on a different track to get to my own "ANT,OK" moment, taking me through a variety of familiar disciplines, several I would not have thought to ANT up. Making connections, get it.
Reading that Greimas influenced LaTour made yet another connection, a major aha moment at that to connect or at least associate the Greimas Schema as a structural tool for viewing schematics of linked networks. Sometime back, I was trying to do the same for urban chaos as expressed in literature. I used the schematic to organize the jumble of seemingly contradictory metaphors for the city across multiple literatures (a comparatist thing) from earliest literatures through contemporary cinema, from the Aeneid to Bladerunner. Familiar chaos...
Semiotics, semantics, semantic web, metaphors and more.
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