Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning

• Main Author: Peverini, Paolo
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2024; Springer
• Edition: 1
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
• Subjects: Actor Network Theory; Actor Network Theory and Semiotcs; Anthropology; Bruno Latour; Bruno Latour and Semiotics; Interdisciplinary studies; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Semiotics; Semiotics / semiology; Semiotics and Post-Structuralism; Social and cultural anthropology; Social Semiotics; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; The Semiotic Analysis of Scientific Texts
• ISBN: 9783031571787; 3031571789; 3031571800; 9783031571800
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57178-7

This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences. It asks why the theory of sign...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Narrative Semiotics and the Study of Scientific Practices -- 2.1 The Beginnings of a Dialogue. The Rhetorical Analysis of the Scientific Text -- 2.2 For a Morphology of Scientific Narrative -- 2.3 Does the Scientific Image Not Exist? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Semiotics for Actor-Network Theory -- 3.1 Much More than a "Toolbox" -- 3.2 A Non-anthropomorphic Theory of Agency -- 3.3 Anti-reductionism and Relational Ontology -- 3.4 From Narrative Programs to Action Programs -- 3.5 From Nature/Culture to the Collective -- 3.6 The Social as Association. From Utterance to Propositions. The Principle of Articulation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Enunciation -- 4.1 Starting from Débrayage/Embrayage -- 4.2 From Signs to Things, from Things to Signs -- 4.3 A Little Philosophy of Enunciation -- 4.4 From Enunciation to Modes of Existence -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Latour for Semiotics -- 5.1 Resumption and Relaunch of a Dialogue on the Search for Meaning -- 5.2 Towards an Extended Notion of Enunciation -- 5.3 The Centrality of the Notion of Enunciative Praxis -- 5.4 An Extended and Unified Theory of Enunciation -- 5.5 Between Semiotics and Cultural Anthropology -- 5.6 Multinaturalism and Internaturality -- 5.7 Anthroposemiotics -- 5.8 Objects as Social Facts -- 5.8.1 A New Category of Non-human Agents: Smart Objects as an Anthropomorphic Device -- 5.8.2 The Naturalization of Smart Objects in Brand Discourses -- 5.8.3 Towards a Conclusion. New Devices and New Hybrids -- Bibliography -- Untitled