
Actor–network theory
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Aug 31, 2026
Speculations on Conjunctural Futures: What Might We Expect, What Must We Do? With Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
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36:56Ronnie LipschutzHOST
And I want to kind of pivot a little bit to talking about theories of social change.
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37:04Ronnie LipschutzHOST
And one of the things that you talk about in the High Sierra, and I think it's actor network theory, right? Or as it's called by those who know, ANT.
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37:16Ronnie LipschutzHOST
And I think the originator was Bruno Latour, a French sociologist.
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37:20Ronnie LipschutzHOST
I'm not positive about that.
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37:22Ronnie LipschutzHOST
The gist of ANT is that non-human things hold a place in social networks and motivate the members of those networks to act collectively in pursuit of some kind of shared goal.
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37:34Ronnie LipschutzHOST
I think that articulates it pretty clearly.
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37:38Ronnie LipschutzHOST
Could you talk about how you wrote about Ant and the Sierra?