{"id":197,"date":"2014-11-24T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-03-19T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:35:49","slug":"actor-network-theory-is-a-kaleidoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Actor Network Theory is a kaleidoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANT\u00a0is a kaleidoscope (Mol, 2010, p.261).\u00a0\u00a0If 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?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-198 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-1-e1416836532494-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"kaleidoscope HS2 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" \/><!--more-->Maybe from the parliamentary perspective each time there&#8217;s a debate or a hearing its like the base of the kaleidoscope being turned.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-2-1016x1024.jpg\" alt=\"kaleidoscope HS2 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"645\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the actors and objects, the little bits of plastic in the base, are reconfigured into new positions and reform into new groups. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-3-1016x1024.jpg\" alt=\"kaleidoscope HS2 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"645\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The details need to be recorded somehow,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-4-1016x1024.jpg\" alt=\"kaleidoscope HS2 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"645\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and this is made more interesting by the various angles from which they might\u00a0be viewed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-5-1016x1024.jpg\" alt=\"kaleidoscope HS2 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(helpfully facilitated by those carefully angled mirrors in the tube).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenumney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kaleidoscope-HS2-6-1016x1024.jpg\" alt=\"kaleidoscope HS2 6\" width=\"640\" height=\"645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mol, A., 2010. Actor-Network Theory: sensitive terms and enduring tensions. <i>K\u00f6lner Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie<\/i>, 50, pp.253\u2013269. Available at: http:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/record\/1\/330874 [Accessed November 16, 2014].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANT\u00a0is a kaleidoscope (Mol, 2010, p.261).\u00a0\u00a0If 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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenumney.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}