Slippery: field notes on empirical ontology
This paper explores empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices. Using the case of Atlantic salmon, it describes a series of scientific and fish-farming practices. Since these practices differ, the paper also argues that different salmon are being enacted within those diffe...
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ftopenunivgb:oai:oro.open.ac.uk:35537 2023-06-11T04:10:18+02:00 Slippery: field notes on empirical ontology Law, John Lien, Marianne 2013-06 https://oro.open.ac.uk/35537/ http://sss.sagepub.com/content/43/3/363 https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312712456947 unknown Law, John <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/jl6987.html> and Lien, Marianne (2013). Slippery: field notes on empirical ontology. Social Studies of Science, 43(3) pp. 363–378. Journal Item None PeerReviewed 2013 ftopenunivgb https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312712456947 2023-05-28T05:49:21Z This paper explores empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices. Using the case of Atlantic salmon, it describes a series of scientific and fish-farming practices. Since these practices differ, the paper also argues that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices. The paper explores the precarious choreographies of those practices, considers the ways in which they enact agency and also work to generate Otherness. Finally it emphasises the productivity of practices and notes that they generate not simply particular realities (for instance particular salmon), but also enact a penumbra of not quite realised realities: animals that were almost but not quite created. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon The Open University: Open Research Online (ORO) Social Studies of Science 43 3 363 378 |
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This paper explores empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices. Using the case of Atlantic salmon, it describes a series of scientific and fish-farming practices. Since these practices differ, the paper also argues that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices. The paper explores the precarious choreographies of those practices, considers the ways in which they enact agency and also work to generate Otherness. Finally it emphasises the productivity of practices and notes that they generate not simply particular realities (for instance particular salmon), but also enact a penumbra of not quite realised realities: animals that were almost but not quite created. |
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