Bruno Latour's ANT

TITLE Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date Bruno Latour’s work “ Reassembling the Social” is a complicated and important book that takes up a number of problems in social theory, foremost among them relating to how humans, nonhumans, and technology are associated with each other (Latour, 2007). This article pinpoints the main themes of Latour’s work. Firstly, Latour (2007) questions the traditional separation of human actors from nonhuman objects by introducing the concept of actants. Actants are entities, human and nonhuman, that can act and therefore mold social relations. This blurring of boundaries thus highlights the agency of nonhumans in shaping social interactions. Secondly, Latour (2007) claims that social reality is being create...