Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 5, 2015Modulo academic opacity, I think I disagree (possibly violently) with this, but interesting enuf to plan deeper read https://twitter.com/jkriss/status/629008323455512576…This Tweet is unavailable.2
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @alper@alper Yes, and that argument in ANT is good, but not completely persuasive. IMO limitation of Latour is he still feels determinism-biased.8:46 PM · Aug 5, 2015
Ben Kraal @bjkraal@aus.social@bjkraal·Aug 5, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @alper and he's not (as are all the ANTers) interested in a priori explanations of agency.11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 5, 2015Replying to @bjkraal@bjkraal @alper Yeah, I consider that a sort of weakness. They weaseled out of talking about agency in first principles ways
Ben Kraal @bjkraal@aus.social@bjkraal·Aug 5, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @alper well, he was writing to/for determinism-biased people.1