Science in Action

How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society

Bruno Latour

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction Opening Pandora's Black Box

    PART I FROM WEARER TO STRONGER RHETORIC

    Chapter I Literature

    Part A: Controversies

    Part B: When controversies flare up the literature becomes technical

    Part C: Writing texts that withstand the assaults of a hostile environment

    Conclusion: Numbers, more numbers

    Chapter 2 Laboratories

    Part A: From texts to things: A showdown

    Part B: Building up counter-laboratories

    Part C: Appealing (to) nature

    PART II FROM WEAR POINTS TO STRONGHOLDS

    Chapter 3 Machines

    Introduction: The quandary of the fact-builder

    Part A: Translating interests

    Part B: Keeping the interested groups in line

    Part C: The model of diffusion versus the model of translation

    Chapter 4 Insiders Out

    Part A: Interesting others in the laboratories

    Part B: Counting allies and resources

    PART III FROM SHORT TO LONGER NETWORKS

    Chapter 5 Tribunals of Reason

    Part A: The trials of rationality

    Part B: Sociologics

    Part C: Who needs hard facts?

    Chapter 6 Centres of calculation

    Prologue: The domestication of the savage mind

    Part A: Action at a distance

    Part B: Centres of calculation

    Part C: Metrologies

    Appendix 1

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Bruno Latour is Professor at the Center for the Study of Innovation at the School of Mines, Paris.