ANT is a kaleidoscope (Mol, 2010, p.261). If we pick it up and look at something, lets say for the sake of argument a High Speed Two railway project, how does that work?
Maybe from the parliamentary perspective each time there’s a debate or a hearing its like the base of the kaleidoscope being turned.
All the actors and objects, the little bits of plastic in the base, are reconfigured into new positions and reform into new groups.
The details need to be recorded somehow,
and this is made more interesting by the various angles from which they might be viewed.
(helpfully facilitated by those carefully angled mirrors in the tube).
Mol, A., 2010. Actor-Network Theory: sensitive terms and enduring tensions. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 50, pp.253–269. Available at: http://dare.uva.nl/record/1/330874 [Accessed November 16, 2014].