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
Wong, William T.Y.
Becerra, Javier Andrés Jiménez
María Belén Albornoz
Jakob Raffn
Sismondo, Sergio
Frederik Lassen
Concepts
Actor-network theory
Philosophy of science
Contingency (philosophy)
Science studies, theoretical works
Determinism
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
São Paulo (Brazil)
Greece
Great Britain
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