Article ID: CBB134032488

Actor Network Theory and Sensing Governance: From Causation to Correlation (2023)

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This article is organized in four sections. The first section introduces sensing governance in terms of the governance of effects rather than causation, focusing on the work of Bruno Latour in establishing the problematic of contingent interaction, rather than causal depth, as key to emergent effects, which can be unexpected and catastrophic. The second section considers in more depth how sensing governance enables politics by other means through putting greater emphasis on relations of interaction, rather than on ontologies of being, and links the methodological approach of sensing governance closely to actor network assumptions that disavow structures of causation. The final two sections analyze how correlation works to reveal new agencies and processes of emergence and how new technologies have been deployed in this area, providing some examples of how the shift from causal relations to sensing effects has begun to alter governmental approaches.

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Authors & Contributors
Berry, Dominic
Brandon, Robert N.
Cartwright, Nancy
Choi, Tina Young
Fleming, Leonore
Galis, Vasilis
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Perspectives on Science
Public Understanding of Science
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Actor-network theory
Philosophy of science
Contingency (philosophy)
Science studies, theoretical works
Historians of science, modern
Causality
People
Latour, Bruno
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Pliny the Elder
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Ancient
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
Greece
São Paulo (Brazil)
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