International Seminar on Network Theory Keynote - Bruno Latour

[asifansari]

Monatomic solids at room temperatures have approximately the same specific heat of 3k per atom, but at low temperatures they don't. The specific heat is smaller at colder temperatures, and it goes to zero at absolute zero. This is true for all material systems, and this observation is called the third law of thermodynamics. Classical mechanics cannot explain the third law, because in classical mechanics the specific heat is independent of the temperature.

[lianania]

Thank you for posting this.

[lianania]

theory is an idea - the more people think about it the more they believe it to be true. Power is given, it is not there itself. Interesting thoughts from Abraham Hicks - it is the thoughts that count. So, to follow, network would NOT be in place. We construct it by recreating (and so creating) an event which never happened outside of its co-constructors.

[JOGUL11]

Very interesting - Latours presentation raises important questions concerning how states, institutions and societies work (though they don't exist in any fundamental way) - basically anthropological questions related to notions of culture and practice. How does people maintain or create whatever could be called society? How could they not if 'society' is just a spill off of Actor Networks?

[lianania]

@JOGUL11 we (society) are part of networks of activated qualities and so distributed across everything and everywhere :-)

[lianania]

@lianania And so , all organisation is strategic (Lyotard) , not a sum of parts. There is no parts, and so we will have no atoms but strategically organised qualities that in physics are given a specific function. all so consistent.

[thgp01]

Bruno Latour, Reassembling The Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory

[thesuikerlounge]

that's geat, thank you!

[reallycoolnamehere]

yes, transcript please!

[anxiousmodernman]

This is wonderful. Thanks for posting. Is there a transcript of this talk?