Meeting 3 Notes

Co-ordinator = Chris Atkinson

PARTICIPANTS

• An important issue in ANT is the notion of closure (perhaps linked to the notion of autopoiesis), a way to specify the (non-tangible) boundaries of the network, which allows a sense of belonging to the actors, and entail their interests.
• One of the problems that we have in setting an AN is to specify what do we want the interests of the other actors to be in relation to the problematisation. How do we move and reconfigure their interests? 
• Some times it is possible that the focus actor is in a sense replaced by the AN itself that becomes self-organised.

CRITICS

• I think you are much in the same issues as you were in the last meeting. I would be interesting to see how you put all these ideas together into some possible actions into the future. How are you planning to converge into something? 
• Notice that an obligatory passage point does not mean that an actor network is self-organised.
• What are the desirable properties of the network you are you creating at this time?

PARTICIPANTS & CRITICS

• We could stick on studying this process as an AN and write a case study about it.
• We can also do some reading on the model of ANT itself and being critical about it.
• We can start applying ANT to this process by specifying the problematisation, the relevant actors and then we can do some interviews to see how the technologies we have been using betrays or help the process in the network.
• We can also examine other frameworks to see what sort of insights they can offer to us.