scholarly journals A New Sujet/Subject for Art Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
Torsten Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theories Of The Subject

AbstractFor some years now, fundamental ideas of newer theoretical trends in the context of Actor Network Theory have been leaking into the minds of that generation of (post-internet) artists who no longer regard the radical change in the socio-technical conditions of digital media cultures as something special or new. These trends are also leaking into the theories of the subject and thus also into the theory(s) of art education. This coincides with the assumption that the humanistic conception of the human individual as a subject, and the associated understanding of education in modernity, no longer matches neither with the artistic practices based on collaborative networked socio-technical processes that can be observed in the post-internet culture. Therefore, changing mediality leads to changing subjectivity.

Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology

2017 ◽  
pp. 220-233
Author(s):  
Beate Ochsner
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Agency And Structure

In 1999, Bruno Latour advocated for “abandoning what was wrong with ANT, that is ‘actor,' ‘network,' ‘theory' without forgetting the hyphen.” However, it seems that the “hyphen,” which brings with it the operation of hyphenating or connecting, was abandoned too quickly. If one investigates what something is by asking what it is meant as well as how it emerges, by (re-)tracing the strategy in materials in situated practices and sets of relations, and, by bypassing the distinction between agency and structure, one shifts from studying “what causes what” to describing “how things happen.” This perspective not only makes it necessary for us to clarify the changing positions and displacements of human and non-human actors in the assemblage, but, also question the role (the enrolment) of the researcher him/herself: What kind of “relation” connects the researcher to his/her research and associates him/her with the subject, how to prevent (or not) his/her own involvement, and, to what degree s/he ignores the relationality of his/her writing in a “sociology of association?”

Den kinematografischen Akteuren folgen

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Wendler
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Media System ◽  
Digital Visual Culture

"Die gegenwärtige digitale visuelle Kultur hat die Filmwissenschaft in den letzten Jahren mit einer Reihe tiefgreifender Fragen konfrontiert. Das sind Fragen nach einer neuen Ontologie bewegter Bilder, dem Zuschnitt des globalen Mediensystems oder der Genealogie digitaler Medien. Der Beitrag schlägt vor, einige der in diesen Debatten aufgeworfenen Fragen mit Hilfe der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (ANT) zu lösen. </br></br>In recent years, digital visual culture has confronted film studies with a series of profound questions. These concern a new ontology of moving images, the design of the global media system or the genealogy of digital media. This paper suggests to solve some of these issues by means of the actor-network theory. "

Reassembling the Problem of the Under-Representation of Girls in IT Courses

2011 ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Rowan ◽  
Chris Bigum
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Key Questions

The percentages of girls in developing countries undertaking information technology subjects in the post-compulsory years of education has remained persistently low: often under 25%. This is despite the fact that this particular phenomenon has been the subject of sustained international enquiry for at least three decades. This article investigates data collected during an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant project (2005-2007) that aimed to identify some of the contemporary reasons for this under-representation in Australian schools. The original phases of data collection proceeded from the belief that there was a clear and agreed understanding that the low numbers of girls was a problem worthy of analysis. As the project evolved, however, significant differences between the researchers’ perception of the underrepresentation and the participants’ views about the same issue. In this paper we make use of actor-network theory to ask key questions about the extent to which the enrolment of girls in IT is indeed ‘a problem’.

The Subject of Media Studies

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost van Loon
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Generalized Symmetry ◽  
The Subject

On the basis of the banal example of the rise of “the selfie”, this chapter critically considers the issue of the Subjects of (and in) Media Studies and argues that the reason why Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has thus far not been widely accepted within this field has been its adherence to the Principles of Generalized Symmetry and Free Association. That is to say: ANT categorically refuses subsuming properties of entities to abstractions such as nature, society or technology. On the contrary, Media Studies have doggedly adhered to privileging “the Human” as its subject of analysis. On the basis of a critique of transcendental phenomenology, which has been specified by a critical discussion of McLuhan's famous edict “media are extensions of man”, the chapter exposes the empirical fallacy of granting the human subject a status of exception and instead proposes an empirical metaphysics based on ‘prehension' as an alternative. This, it is argued, will enable forms of media analyses that can be both radically empirical and politically engaged.

scholarly journals A teoria ator-rede em uma sequência didática para discussão do tema ecossistemas e suas transformações

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-188
Author(s):  
Fernanda Costa dos Santos Dressler ◽  
Fábio Augusto Rodrigues e Silva ◽  
Danilo Seithi Kato
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Educational Method ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Belo Horizonte

Resumo: Este estudo se fundamentou na teoria ator-rede e investigou processos de ensino e aprendizagem no 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública em Belo Horizonte a partir de uma sequência didática que discute sobre ecossistemas e suas transformações. Tomamos esse processo como uma prática sociomaterial em que a aprendizagem decorre de um processo de associação entre humanos, artefatos naturais e tecnológicos construídos por meio de uma rede de múltiplos fatos, objetos e pessoas e nos dedicamos a responder: Como o conhecimento sobre o ecossistema e suas transformações é mobilizado por meio de um conjunto de atividades em uma sequência didática, das quais se destaca uma trilha ecológica? Em nossos resultados, constatamos que as atividades possibilitaram uma experiência que abarca aspectos e assuntos que envolvam o sujeito e seu entorno, caracterizado-se como uma “aprendizagem estética”, o que propicia uma educação científica que amplia percepções sobre ambiente dos estudantes.Palavras-chave: Aprendizagem Estética; Teoria Ator-Rede; Ensino Fundamental II. The actor-network theory in a didactic sequence for discussion of the theme ecosystems and their transformationsAbstract: This research consists of a study based on the actor-network theory to investigate the teaching and learning processes with 6th-grade students from a public school in Belo Horizonte from a didactic sequence that discusses ecosystems and their transformations. We adopted this educational method as a socio-material practice in which learning results from a process of association between humans, natural and technological artifacts built through a network of multiple facts, objects, and people. From this direction, we dedicate ourselves to answer: How is knowledge about the ecosystem and its transformations mobilized through a set of activities in a didactic sequence, of which an ecological trail stands out? In our results, we found that the didactic sequence enabled an experience that encompasses aspects and subjects that involve the subject and his surroundings, characterized as “aesthetic learning”, which provides a scientific education that expands students' perceptions about the environment.Keywords: Learning Aesthetic; Actor-Network Theory; Elementary School. 

Authenticity in Online Religion

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Yoe Tan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject

In this article, the subject of online religion and how it can be researched is discussed. The dynamics of religious experience, authority, communication and more is subject of much discussion both in academia and religious discourses primarily because of the seemingly immaterial realm that is cyberspace. This article examines unique aspects of the nature of online religion and pays particular attention to the fluidity of online/offline relations and the subject of “authenticity” in the realm of online religion. Following from that is the discussion of how actor-network theory (ANT), first developed by Bruno Latour, can be deployed as a useful methodological approach to researching online religion, and to navigate potentially deterministic and oppositional discourses of online/offline relations.

Authenticity in Online Religion

2019 ◽  
pp. 540-551
Author(s):  
Meng Yoe Tan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject

In this article, the subject of online religion and how it can be researched is discussed. The dynamics of religious experience, authority, communication and more is subject of much discussion both in academia and religious discourses primarily because of the seemingly immaterial realm that is cyberspace. This article examines unique aspects of the nature of online religion and pays particular attention to the fluidity of online/offline relations and the subject of “authenticity” in the realm of online religion. Following from that is the discussion of how actor-network theory (ANT), first developed by Bruno Latour, can be deployed as a useful methodological approach to researching online religion, and to navigate potentially deterministic and oppositional discourses of online/offline relations.

scholarly journals Threat and Security Production at Václav Havel Airport Prague

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sarah Komasová
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Vaclav Havel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Security Check

Building on empirical qualitative research, this article explores the nature of security and threat resulting from the contemporary security practice at Václav Havel Airport Prague. The article, building on Actor-Network Theory, interprets a security check as a chain of translation, the possibility of threat deployment as a program of action, and activities aiming to disable threats as a security antiprogram. Deployment of threats is further conceptualised as a failure of a security chain implementation, its design, threat program expectation, and the sole existence of a particular program. Considering inflight explosions as the main threat to be identified, the article proceeds by finding divergences between travellers and employees regarding the subject of protection, and analyses the notion of terrorism present in practice as well as its consequences. Security is then identified as a service of agency take-over. The article indicates the importance of security agency and the ANT-based inquiry enabling its exploration.

scholarly journals Landscape in space and landscape space (Anglo-American historiography)

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Galina Petrovna Kibasova ◽  
Ol'ga Valentinovna Galkova
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Significant Extent ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Anglo American

The subject of this research is analysis of the problem of interaction between cultural landscape and space in the Anglo-American literature. Special attention is given to examination of concepts that interpret space as encompassing both, physical and symbolic components, which create the concepts of space as the network of relations. Particular interest of researchers towards determination of interconnection between the communities, their habitats and weakening of these interconnection in the process of globalization. Analyzing the problem of the &ldquo;sense of place&rdquo;, the author refers to the concept of design of space. Characteristics is given to different positions on the question of correlation of landscape and space. The authors highlight actively developing phenomenological approach towards studying cultural landscape. Since the metaphor of palimpsest is crucial in disclosure of the essence of landscape, consideration of space as a multilayered phenomenon that incorporates past and current functions, ideologies and physical contexts as an intertext, is demonstrated. The conclusion is made that one of the most promising trends is the understanding of landscape space as relational, when the landscape is viewed as a product of practice, trajectory and interconnection. Relational representations on the constantly changing world to a significant extent are formed by the actor-network theory, the &ldquo;theory of becoming&rdquo; or &ldquo;new vitalism&rdquo;, and hybrid geography. The actor-network theory is intended for overcoming the perceptions of world as comprised of discrete and limited objects, and suggest seeing the world comprised of networks. Each object or person can be interpreted as the cumulative result of network relations, and the sense of individuality and will is merely a relational effect.

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