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DOES TECHNOLOGY DEPRIVE US OF WORK? TECHNOLOGY-RELATED UNEMPLOYMENT IN AN ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY

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Afeltowicz L.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2007
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issue 1(184)
107-126
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The impact of technological innovations on employment is widely discussed. Debates related to the question of the so-called technology-related unemployment have lasted since the beginning of the 19th century, however, many of its aspects escape economic reflection. Drawing on the Actor-Network theory, the author will point to the processes linked to technology-related unemployment which remain beyond the reach of economics. Starting with the particular conceptions of modernity present in the Actor-Network theory, the author will prove that it is not only technology (as the economic conception of technology-related unemployment implies) but rather a coincidence of social and technological factors that leads to marginalization of people in production and services networks.
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TEÓRIA SIETE-AKTÉROV A POJEM PREKLADU

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Gogora A.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2013
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vol. 68
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issue 9
800 – 811
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The paper concentrates on the concept of translation, which is the main constitutive part of the actor-network theory. It offers a general definition of the concept and with the help of selected examples it shows its methodical and interdisciplinary potential. The aim is to outline different conceptions of translation as articulated by the representatives of the actor-network theory as well as its applicability in various disciplines. The attention is paid also to the transforming function of the concept in the process of its methodical development.
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Prologue in the form of a dialogue between a student and his (somewhat) Socratic Professor

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Latour B.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2007
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issue 1/2(103/4)
127-143
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The text is in the form of a dialogue between a professor representing the Actor-Network Theory and a doctor's degree candidate whose tutor has suggested to him that he applied the approach in his research. A talk is, then, one between an expert (in a given area) and a layman. Such a structure enables the staging of going through a variety of misunderstandings arising around the Theory and some typical accusations charged against it. The first to tackle were the troubles with the name itself and the improper use of the term 'theory'. Then came the question of understanding what a tool is; juxtaposing the frame (as a context) with a description; objectivity and empiricism and relativism at the same time; text approached as a social sciences laboratory. The notion of 'actor' made opposite to a marionette controlled by social forces, thus being an informer only, is discussed at more length. Along with those, accompanying issues appear of information as trans-formation, invisibility of actors and their criticality and reflexivity.
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There's no such thing as society! Bruno Latour's 'our younger brothers', social studies on science and ethical involvement

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Binczyk E.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2007
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issue 1/2(103/4)
144-156
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The present text discuses selected theses of Bruno Latour's book 'Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory', intended as a systematic introduction to the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). ANT is an extremely philosophically innovative concept, rooted in a tradition, more than thirty years old now, of so-called social studies on science which can be defined as a current within non-classical sociology of knowledge. ANT is presented as an alternative social metatheory, or, a specific methodology. The authoress rejects a hyposthasis of (the) Society, which has been preventing social sciences from an adequate recognition of several mechanisms, particularly those characteristic to a global risk society. The essay highlights that ANT is not yet another version of a social constructivism. For the co-author of this position, it is important that it be empirical as well, and that social sciences appreciate the role of objects, things, referred to as 'our younger brothers'.
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Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory

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Abriszewski K.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2007
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issue 1/2 (103/4
113-126
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This text has two goals: the first is to present the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as elaborated by Bruno Latour, and the second, to provide a context for understanding some of the problems touched upon in the Prologue in the form of a dialogue between a student and his (somewhat) Socratic Professor. Since the question how ANT differs from other theoretical approaches is of essence to both, the author points out to the originality of the Theory's resolutions whilst emphasising how it may differ against its alternative approaches. ANT is rooted in the laboratory anthropology current, hence its attachment to a meticulous empirical description. Therefore, having raised issues traditionally being a domain of philosophy of science or sociology, ANT has contributed its own unique perspective and resolutions, enabling an innovative method of perceiving the relatedness between cognitional practices (science) and politics.
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ČESKÁ POČÍTAČOVĚ GENEROVANÁ LITERATURA A OTÁZKA AUTORSTVÍ LITERÁRNÍHO TEXTU

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Piorecký K.
World Literature Studies
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2017
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vol. 9
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issue 3
66 – 78
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Since the end of the 1950s, computer-generated literary texts have been a marginal but ever-present part of many national literatures including the Czech one. This study primarily charts the history of this phenomenon on the Czech cultural scene. Its material scope extends from experiments in the 1960s (by Jiří Levý and Karel Pala) and the metaliterary reflections of Jiří Drašnar with computer-distorted texts to contemporary conceptual procedures (e. g. glitch aesthetics in Impromptu by Roman Haisel) and literary experiments with artificial intelligence. Attention is also focused on its forays into pop culture (Google poetry). More general questions on the authorship of literary texts in particular are then formulated, and a proposed pluralist conception of authorship as a collective of human and technological actors is presented, based on analysis of generative literature output.
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