Mixing Humans with Non-Humans: Sociology of a Door-Closer

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1988

In Social Problems (special issue on sociology of science, edited by Leigh Star) Vol. 35, pp.298-310, 1988 (with Jim Johnson). [1995: Reprint in Ecologies of Knowledge - Work and Politics in Science and Technology, Leigh Star (editor) SUNY Press, Albany, pp.257-280. Second republication in Republication in Jujionas Urbonas Talking Doors Catalog Exhibition in Lithuania, pp.60-88, 2010]

Abstract

Outline of the technical regime of enunciation through the semiotic study of simple artefacts like door closers or road bumpers; a vocabulary for the semiotics of technical artefacts is offered.

Translations

2006: Allemand / German
In Andréa Belliger & David J. Krieger ANThology - Ein einführendes Handbuch zur Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2006 pp.237-258