This space is like a scrapbook to collect an assortment of notes, images and quotes to do with the readings on digital cultures, a module I am currently doing on MSc in E-learning (Uni of Edinburgh).
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'Perambulation stimulates the imagination'
(William Boyd).
Law, J. (2009) Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics. In Turner, B.S. (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Ch. 7. pp. 141-158.—The single-minded commitment to relationality makes it possible to explore strange and heterogenous links and follow surprising actors to equally surprising places. It highlights practices offlimits and uninteresting to non-semiotic approaches. It does this by eroding distinctions in kind, ontological distinctions. In short, the toolkit can be understood as a powerful set of devices for levelling divisions usually taken to be foundational. These are demoted and treated as the effect of translations. Human and non-human, meaning and materiality, big and small, macro and micro, social and technical, nature and culture - these are just some of the dualisms undone by the relationality. Obviously this posthumanism is intellectually radical and often controversial.
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