B - Latour, Bruno Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network theory. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. (Chapters "Introduction to Part I," "First Source of Uncertainty," "Third Source of Uncertainty," "Fourth Source of Uncertainty," "Introduction to Part II")

How does one get caught by Corona (a separate issue from being caught by the virus)?

 

1. Garfinkel's legacy in the first critiques
   1. Bourdieu on Garfinkel and Latour
      1. on Garfinkel in Outline of a theory of practice (1972) pp. 21-22
      2. on ethnomethodology and "family" in Practical reasons: On the theory of action (1994). pp. 64ff
      3. on Latour in Practical reasons: On the theory of action (1994). p, 94
2. And then: expansion on Garfinkel and debate on what it is to construct and what it is that is constructed
   1. From standing crap games to science labs to ...

      (Microsoft, schools in New York, the wars in Mesopotamia, etc.)

      the ongoing production of Corona across the globe including the "science," the reporting of the science, the political decisions by various authorities about various added or removed constraints, the people in their localities arguing all the above and acting...

3. Starting from "controversies about" rather than from general principles

   (since it is the controversies and the many activities around it that construct the field of the controversies as well as the populations (experts, researchers, students, etc. ) that staff the contoversies.

4. The Five Sources of Uncertainty
   1. No goup: only group formation
   2. Action is overtaken
      1. by others
      2. who constitute the actor
   3. Objects too have agency
   4. Matters of fact vs. matters of concerns
   5. Writing down risky accounts
5. rule, vs. strategy, vs. accountability within a field with affordances
6. assemblages and translation (as transportation or movement of actants through a network)
   1. "things" are always involved in the assemblage
   2. the assemblage can be a thing ("black box") as its products get used in other assemblages
7. Having very serious fund with Latour
   
   

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