<世界>は、いかに記述されるのか : ブルーノ・ラトゥール著『虚構の「近代」-科学人類学は警告する』川村久美子(訳),新評論,2008年

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The purpose of this article is to examine the theoretical scope of Bruno Latour's works with the aim of clarifying the "anthropology of modernity," which has until now positively contributed to the expansion of the field and the reconstruction of the description method. The book We Have Never Been Modern widens the theoretical perspective in the background of the author's experimental study in the social sciences-anthropology of science and sociology of science. Further, after this article presents the outline of the book, the discussion focuses on the concept of the "world" to support Latour's modern ages theory and the description method. In his book, Latour describes our world as the original first world, where humans and material things coexist. The approach by which such descriptions is referred to is "actor-network theory" (henceforth, ANT). This approach symmetrically treats an actor with an agency and the human and material world as equal; it also discusses their interaction from this point of view. ANT has been criticized for various reasons. However, lifology and material culture research constitute an intimate aspect of ANT. Therefore, this article discusses the production aspect from the perspective of lifology and material culture research.
2009-09-30