John Law - Monsters, Machines, and Sociotechnical Relations -

John Law - Monsters, Machines, and Sociotechnical Relations

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In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the three central issues raised by John Law in the introduction to his 1991 anthology, “Sociology of Monsters”: the problem of epistemology; the problem of the social; the problem of distribution. Law argues that the coming together of Sociology and STS (science, technology, society) offers an opportunity to address these issues in meaningful and ethical ways.

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