Concepts
Human or nonhuman actions that push against the function of an artifact
What is Anti Program?
The act of making possible a certain selection of associations with other actors
While ___ alter the time schedule of a given task. That is, they require being set up, followed by relatively little maintenance. Whereas ___ need to perform a given task with constant effort as time goes by
What are nonhuman and human actors?
___ are shaped by their antiprograms which can contain contradictory requirements
What are artifacts?
To ascribe human qualities to nonhumans
What is Anthropomorphism?
The act of moving moral programs of action between different actors, humans and nonhumans
What is Displacement?
These types of skills are present in an actor network. ___ skills are those in humans, ___ are those in nonhumans
What are intrasomatic and extrasomatic skills?
Both of these use a form of shifting characters. In fact, ___ shifts characters to nontextual elements, whereas ___ may shift characters, but remain in the realm of the text
What are machines & texts?
The process by which engineers build into nonhuman actors certain prescriptions
The thesis that we usually go from intrasomatic to extrasomatic skills
What is the deskilling thesis?
The act of endowing nonhumans with (human) characters
What is Figuration?
While ___ alter the time schedule of a given task. That is, they require being set up, followed by relatively little maintenance. Whereas ___ need to perform a given task with constant effort as time goes by
What are nonhuman and human actors?
The circumstance that parts of a moral program of action are spread between humans and nonhumans
What is Distribution of Competences?
One deals with so-called dark matter, an expected mass in the universe that has not been found. Another, similarly, cannot see a missing moral force that is strong enough to hold society together
What is the difference between sociology and cosmology?