Posted in Academia, Actor-Network Theory, Environment, tagged Latour on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bruno Latour spoke this evening to an overflow crowd on the topic of ‘Ecology and Democracy.’ The main substance of his talk was devoted to a largely sympathetic discussion of Break Through, the recently published book (here’s a Wired review) by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, in which they take up the argument that they [...]
Posted in Actor-Network Theory, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I spent much of last night and early this morning reading through an interesting article by Guenther Teubner, of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Teubner’s a professor of private law and legal sociology, and he’s written extensively on topics in contract law, corporate regulation, and international law. But he’s also developed a perspective on legal evolution and [...]
Posted in Actor-Network Theory, Asian Studies, Education, International and Comparative Education, Observation Theory, Social Theory on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m in the midst of scrambling to finish a paper on the concept of education and the Pacific Rim: a topic on which there’s been very little written, with the notable exception of a few essays by Robert Cowen, emeritus professor of the Institute of Education at the University of London (see for example this [...]
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