Actor-Network Theory

as a Theory of Action

Tommaso Venturini

Institut Rhocircnalpin des Systegravemes Complexes

INRIA Advanced Fellow

tommasoventuriniit

Actor-Network TheoryhttpsenwikipediaorgwikiActor-network_theory

For agency to be expressed and consequences

produced

actions need to

(1)involve several actors (acting as collecting)

(2)whose contributions must be coordinated (acting as

aligning)

(3)by bending their trajectories (acting as detouring)

(4)and redefining their identities (acting as being)

4 felicity conditions of actions

Law J amp Callon M (1992) The Life and Death of an Aircraft A Network Analysis of Technical Change In W Bijker amp J Law (Eds) Shaping Technology Building Society Studies in Sociotechnical Change (pp 21ndash52) MIT Press

(1) Acting as collecting

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

(3) Acting as detouring

Callon M (1986) Some elements of a sociology of translation domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay In J Law (Ed) Power action and belief a new sociology of knowledge (pp 196ndash223) London Routledge

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Actor-Network TheoryhttpsenwikipediaorgwikiActor-network_theory

For agency to be expressed and consequences

produced

actions need to

(1)involve several actors (acting as collecting)

(2)whose contributions must be coordinated (acting as

aligning)

(3)by bending their trajectories (acting as detouring)

(4)and redefining their identities (acting as being)

4 felicity conditions of actions

Law J amp Callon M (1992) The Life and Death of an Aircraft A Network Analysis of Technical Change In W Bijker amp J Law (Eds) Shaping Technology Building Society Studies in Sociotechnical Change (pp 21ndash52) MIT Press

(1) Acting as collecting

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

(3) Acting as detouring

Callon M (1986) Some elements of a sociology of translation domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay In J Law (Ed) Power action and belief a new sociology of knowledge (pp 196ndash223) London Routledge

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

For agency to be expressed and consequences

produced

actions need to

(1)involve several actors (acting as collecting)

(2)whose contributions must be coordinated (acting as

aligning)

(3)by bending their trajectories (acting as detouring)

(4)and redefining their identities (acting as being)

4 felicity conditions of actions

Law J amp Callon M (1992) The Life and Death of an Aircraft A Network Analysis of Technical Change In W Bijker amp J Law (Eds) Shaping Technology Building Society Studies in Sociotechnical Change (pp 21ndash52) MIT Press

(1) Acting as collecting

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

(3) Acting as detouring

Callon M (1986) Some elements of a sociology of translation domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay In J Law (Ed) Power action and belief a new sociology of knowledge (pp 196ndash223) London Routledge

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Law J amp Callon M (1992) The Life and Death of an Aircraft A Network Analysis of Technical Change In W Bijker amp J Law (Eds) Shaping Technology Building Society Studies in Sociotechnical Change (pp 21ndash52) MIT Press

(1) Acting as collecting

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

(3) Acting as detouring

Callon M (1986) Some elements of a sociology of translation domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay In J Law (Ed) Power action and belief a new sociology of knowledge (pp 196ndash223) London Routledge

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

(3) Acting as detouring

Callon M (1986) Some elements of a sociology of translation domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay In J Law (Ed) Power action and belief a new sociology of knowledge (pp 196ndash223) London Routledge

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Latour B (1995) The ldquoPeacutedofilrdquo of Boa Vista a Photo-Philosophical MontageCommon Knowledge 4(1) 144ndash187

(2) Acting as aligning

(3) Acting as detouring

Callon M (1986) Some elements of a sociology of translation domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay In J Law (Ed) Power action and belief a new sociology of knowledge (pp 196ndash223) London Routledge

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

(3) Acting as detouring

Callon M (1986) Some elements of a sociology of translation domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay In J Law (Ed) Power action and belief a new sociology of knowledge (pp 196ndash223) London Routledge

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Kohler R E (1994) Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental LifeChicago The University of Chicago Press

(4) Acting as being

Drosophila

Fly Group

Standard Organism

Chromosome Mapping

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

ldquoRelativism is not the relativity of truth but the truth of relationrdquoDeleuze G (1988) Le pli Leibniz et le Baroque Paris Editions de Minuit

(4) Acting as being

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

ANT is not a theory of actors and networks

but a theory of actors as networks and of networks

as actors

Actions are unities

units and unions

(actors and networks)

Actor=Network Theory

not Actor+Network Theory

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

A pragmatic stance

gains and losses

Shifting the focus from essence to action

purposely neglect the general differences between

bull humannon-human actors

bull individualcollective actors

in order to observe

1 the interferences between actors of different type

2 other more specific differences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Human amp non-human

interferences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Human amp non-human

and other differences

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Individual and collective

and other differences

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Venturini T Jacomy M Baneyx A amp Girard P (forthcoming)

Hors champs la multipositionnalite par lrsquoanalyse des re seauxReseaux

Individual and collective

and other differences

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

social structures VS repetition and

variation

Collective tendencies have an existence of

their own they are forces as real as

cosmic forces albeit of another sort they

too affect the individual from without

albeit through other channels The proof

that the reality of collective tendencies is

no less than that of cosmic forces is that

this reality is demonstrated in the same

way namely by the uniformity of effects

Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide

A social thing [] devolves and passes on not

from the social group collectively to the

individual but rather from one individual [hellip] to

another individual and that in the passage of

one mind into another mind it is refracted The

sum of these refractions from the initial impulse

of an inventor a discoverer an innovator or

modifier [] is the entire reality of a social thing

at a given moment a reality which is constantly

changing just like any other reality through

imperceptible nuances

Tarde G (1995) Les Deux eacuteleacutements de la

sociologie

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Individual and collective

interferences

Latour B Jensen P Venturini T Grauwin S amp Boullier D (2012)

ldquoThe whole is always smaller than its partsrdquo a digital test of Gabriel Tardesrsquo monads

The British Journal of Sociology 63(4) 590ndash615

Venturini T Jensen P amp Latour B (2015) Fill in the Gap A New Alliance for Social and

Natural Sciences Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18(2) 11

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Individual and collective

interferences

Barthelemy M Bordin P Berestycki H amp Gribaudi M (2013)Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a cityScientific Reports 3

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Situations of structural change or revolutions eg

bull moments in which a new species transforms an ecological environment(Levins 1968 Gordon 2011)

bull an innovation lsquocreatively destroyrsquo an industrial market(Schumpeter 1976)

bull a compromise is proposed to defuse with a social crisis(Callon Lascoumes amp Barthe 2009)

Demand to shift our focus

from the distinction between local interactions and global structures

to interactions between things changing quickly and things changing slowly

Collective changes

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

A spatial framing

of collective change

Disadvantages of misusing the micromacro framing

bull Binary micro and macro attractors vacuums

graduations of speed between them

bull Rigid entities cannot change tempo

(they are either movable actors or fixed structures)

bull Topological implicit assumption that

local changes faster than global

Venturini T (2018) The Fish Tank Complex of Social ModellingIn M Nagatsu amp A Ruzzene (Eds) Frontiers of Social Science A Philosophical Reflection (forthcoming) New York Bloomsbury

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

tommasoventuriniit

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Energy scales

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

httpwwwmodesofexistenceorginquiryindexphpb[chapter]=38673ampb[subheading]=38689ampa=SET+DOC+LEADERampc[l

eading]=DOCampc[slave]=TEXTampi[id]=doc-14776ampi[column]=DOCamps=0ampq=TSR2

(1) Acting as collecting

Fish tank complex

Studying change in Wikipedia

Viegas F B Wattenberg M Kriss J amp Van Ham F (2007)Talk before you type Coordination in WikipediaIn 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

httphintfmprojectshistoryflow

Studying change in Wikipedia

Viegas F B Wattenberg M Kriss J amp Van Ham F (2007)Talk before you type Coordination in WikipediaIn 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

httphintfmprojectshistoryflow

Studying change in Wikipedia

Borra E Weltevrede E Ciuccarelli P Kaltenbrunner A Venturini T (2015)Societal Controversies in Wikipedia ArticlesProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

wwwcontropedianetdemo

Studying change in French parliament

wwwlafabriquedelaloifr

The origin of The Origin of Species

httpsfathominfotraces

Social versioning

wwwcontropedianetwwwlafabriquedelaloifr

Dancing togheter

httpsynchronousobjectsosuedu

One Flat Thing reproduced

1 Shifts the attention

bull away from the distinction between local interaction and global structures (the micromacro divide)

bull to the processes of slowing down and speeding up

2 Captures

bull Repetition and variationGabriel Tarde Les lois de limitation 1890Gilles Deleuze Difference and repetition 1968

bull Sequence (before and after) and coordination (at the same time)

3 Visualizes change by

bull Augmentation instead of aggregation

bull View change by changing views

Human and non-human actors

Human and non-human actors