Artifacts have consequences, not agency Toward a critical theory of global environmental history

• Published in: European journal of social theory Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 95 - 110
• Main Author: Hornborg, Alf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2017; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Actor-network theory; Anthropology; Ecosystems; Fetishism; Marxist analysis; Networks; Ontology; Posthumanism; Power; Sociology; distinctions; semiotics; posthumanism; ontology; artifacts
• ISSN: 1368-4310; 1461-7137
• DOI: 10.1177/1368431016640536

This article challenges the urge within Actor-Network Theory, posthumanism, and the ontological turn in sociology and anthropology to dissolve analytical distinctions between subject and object, society and nature, and human and non-human. It argues that only by acknowledging such distinctions and a...