Actor-network theory (n.) is a study of how a lot of hard work in which heterogeneous bits and pieces -test tubes, reagents, organisms, skilled hands, scanning electron microscopes, radiation monitors, other scientist, articles, computer terminals, and all the rest -that would like to make off on their own are juxtaposed into a patterned network which overcomes their resistance.
Actor-network theory (n.) gives equal importance to the material world as the human world such that pasteur's discovery of lactic acid is a great event not only in his life, but in the life of the yeast.
Actor-network theory (n.) sees the actor and the network not as two interacting entities, but as two faces of the same phenomena of the social, much like waves and particles.
Actor-network theory (n.) is an analytic stance rather than an ethical stance when it says that there is no difference between people and objects. Indeed, we use the analytic stance to sharpen ethical questions about the special character of the human effect.
Actor-network theory (n.) is an exploration of 'the capacity of nonhumans to act or participate in systems or networks' systems or networks'.
Actor-network theory (n.) is not a theory of the social, it is a theory of a space in which the social has become a certain type of entity.
Actor-network theory (n.) is not a theory of the social, nor a theory of the subject, nor of God, or of nature , but of the space and fluids circulating in a non-modern situation.
Actor-network theory (n.) is a theory in whereby 'actor' is not representative of agency and 'network' is not representative of society society. Actor-network are two faces of the same, circulatory phenomenon, like waves and particles.