Our last telic session was very interesting and clarifying. Not
only did we have two great presentations on this Bruno Latour paper, we also
had to brainstorm in little groups on different items. One discussion was about
this image, and how it relates to the Latour paper.
Interesting to me was how Danny en co. looked at this picture from the ‘delegating’ point of view. What do humans delegate to the nonhumans in this picture.We delegate force to the cranes. Without the cranes, putting together the iron framework would be very hard or even impossible. This delegating to nonhumans was an important idea in the Latour paper. An idea that I didn’t take up in my previous reflection on the Latour paper.
What is this ‘delegating’ all about?