On recalling ANT

Thank you for asking someone who never used the word actor-network to speak at the introduction of this meeting. I guess that the division of labor between John Law and I is that since, according to the title of the conference, he has talked about “ANT” , thus my topic must be: “and after”. Hopefully there is a life after ANT. Like Antony I can say “I am not here to praise ANT but to bury it”. Let us do the burial properly so that from the ashes something else can ressuscitate.
I will start by saying that here are four things that do not work with actor-network theory; the word actor, the word network, the word theory and the hyphen! Four nails in the coffin.