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Jul. 9th, 2022 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timelets...Tyndall defines actors. Are they human or nonhuman? Nonhuman. What do they want? Evil. What do they do ? They lie in wait. Since when? Since the beginning of time. What has happened? An event: they have become visible. What has made them visible? Science, another actor, which must in turn be recorded and defined by its performances.
The fact that we do not know in advance what the world is made up of is not a reason for refusing to make a start, because other storytellers seem to know and are constantly defining the actors that surround them-what they want, what causes them, and the ways in which they can be weakened or linked together. These storytellers attribute causes, date events, endow entities with qualities, classify actors. The analyst does not need to know more than they; he has only to begin at any point, by recording what each actor says of the others.
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The only task of the analyst is to follow the transformations that the actors convened in the stories are undergoing.
--- Bruno Latour. The Pasteurization of France, 1993.
The fact that we do not know in advance what the world is made up of is not a reason for refusing to make a start, because other storytellers seem to know and are constantly defining the actors that surround them-what they want, what causes them, and the ways in which they can be weakened or linked together. These storytellers attribute causes, date events, endow entities with qualities, classify actors. The analyst does not need to know more than they; he has only to begin at any point, by recording what each actor says of the others.
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The only task of the analyst is to follow the transformations that the actors convened in the stories are undergoing.
--- Bruno Latour. The Pasteurization of France, 1993.
