Patents, Travel, Space: Ethnographic Encounters with Objects in Transit
| Autor: | Marianne De Laet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
060101 anthropology
Sociotechnical system 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Media studies Advertising 06 humanities and the arts Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Space (commercial competition) Technoscience 050905 science studies Object (philosophy) Motion (physics) Ethnography Frame (artificial intelligence) 0601 history and archaeology Sociology 0509 other social sciences Transit (satellite) |
| Zdroj: | Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 18:149-168 |
| ISSN: | 1472-3433 0263-7758 |
| Popis: | In this paper, an ethnographical take on objects in motion, I follow the travel of patents from their places of origin in the Western world of technoscience to newly developing worlds. I argue that not only does the influx of patents and patent systems change the sociotechnical configurations in which they emerge; the patent itself—or so I claim—changes with its travel as well, and so it is a different thing in different places. I thus link the nature of things with the places in which they operate, and frame the patent as both a changeable object and an agent of change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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