"The best way to proceed (...) is simply to keep track of all our moves, even those that deal with the very prodution of the account [create the trace; to log]. This is neither for the sake of epistemic reflexivity nor for some narcissist indulgence into one's own work, but because from now on everything is data: everything from the first telephone call to a prospective interviewee, the first appointment with the advisor, the first corrections made by a client on a grant proposal, the first launching of a search engine, the first list of boxes to tick in a questionnaire." (pags. 133, 134)
"(...) the more science and technology develops, the easier it is to physically trace social connections. Satellites, fiber optic networks, calculators, data streams, and laboratories are the new material equipment that underline the ties as if a huge red pen was connecting the dots to let everyone see the lines that were barely visible before. But what is true for laboratories and offices is true for all the other connecting or structuring sites as well." (pag. 180, 181)
"As we have witnessed so many times throughout this book, information technologies allow us to trace the associations in a way that was impossible before. Note because they subvert the old concrete 'humane' society, turning us into formal cyborgs or 'post human' ghosts, but for exactly the opposite reason: they make visible what was before only present virtually. In earlier times, competence was a rather mysterious affair that remained hard to trace; for this reason, you had to order it, so to speak, in bulk. As soon as competence can be counted in bauds and bytes along modems and routers, as soon as it can be peeled back layer after layer, it opens itself to fieldwork." (pag. 207)
In Reassembling the social, Bruno Latour, 2005, Oxford
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