Accumulate Value

Amplify Consequences

Become More Valuable Together

Connect

Create Acceleration

Create Breadth Over Time

Create Density

Create Leverage

Create Optionality

Extend Reach

Make Distance Manageable

Make Scale Possible

Quietly Create Opportunity

Quietly Generate Wealth

Reward Breadth

Reward Density

Reward Investment

Reward Participation

Reward Scale

Turn Resources Into Wealth

Turn Wealth Into Influence

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is a fragile achievement, as much prone to collapse and disorder as to stabilization and expansion.

For Latour, however, networks are not all-powerful uncontested systemic forces. In contrast and sespite the huge concentration of resources, they are still a relatively rare and fragile achievement, as much prone to collapse and disorder as to stabilization and expansion. It is the doubling of power and fragility. Much of the investment of technoscience goes into the recuperation of social order from potential breakdowns and instability. (van Loon 2002: 50)

is a never-stable set of such relations, comprising human and nonhuman actors alike... linked together, these chains or webs of interaction among multiple constituents become 'quasi-objects' in themselves.

For Latour, a network is a never-stable set of such relations, comprising human and nonhuman actors alike... linked together, these chains or webs of interaction among multiple constituents become 'quasi-objects' in themselves. More dynamic than a Bourdieuvian field, less total than a Marxist or Foucauldian system, such mobile webs are knowable to us, Latour says, only by virtue of their 'tracers': the 'subtle pathways' of connection that are materialized in, for example, correspondence, institutional documents, or textual citations like Corelli's mock-dedication (118).[3]'

is a set of institutions, knowledge practices, and artifacts that reflect on themselves and generate their reality.

By the 'Network,' I mean to refer to a set of institutions, knowledge practices, and artifacts thereof that internally generate the effects of their own reality by reflecting on themselves' (Riles 2001:3)

is a set of interconnected nodes whereby a nod is the point where the curve intersects itself such that it contributes to the network's goals.

A network is a set of interconnected nodes. Anode is the point where the curve intersects itself. A network has no center, just nodes. Nodes may be of varying relevance for the network. Nodes increase their importance for the network by absorbing more relevant information, and processing it more efficiently. The relative importance of a node does not stem from its specific features but from its ability to contribute to the network's goals. However, all nodes of a network are necessary for the network's performance. When nodes become redundant or useless, networks tend to reconfigure themselves, deleting some nodes, and adding new ones. Nodes only exist and function as components of networks. The network is the unit, not the node. (Castels 2004: 3)

is a set of linkages, representing transactions and relationships between the actors of a population.

the set of linkages, representing transactions and relationships, between the actors of a population' (Hall 1987, p. 12). B

is an amalgamation of human and nonhuman actors which interact together for: Moral decision making, establishing norms and meanings and, determining outcomes.

For Latour, a network describes an amalgamation of human and nonhuman actors which interact together for: moral decision making, establishing norms and meanings and, determining outcomes'

is defined by the program that assigns the network its goals and its rules of performance.

A network is defined by the program that assigns the network its goals and its rules of performance. (Castels 2004: 3)

is, in the case of actors, objects, and institutions, something which becomes visible when it breaks down. The moment a t.V. Stops working, it ceases to become a single and coherent object and becomes visible as a network of electronic components and human interventions.

Why is it that we are sometimes but only sometimes aware of the networks that lie behind and make up an actor, an object or an institution' For instance, for most of us most of the time a television is a single and coherent object with relatively few apparent parts. On the other hand when it breaks down, for that same user -and still more for the repair person -it rapidly turns into a network of electronic components and human interventions. (Law 1992 : 4)

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