"Provincialising STS" (2015) "STS as Method" (2015) After Method (2004) Aircraft Stories (2002) "Notes on Materiality and Sociality" (with Annemarie Mol, 1995) A Sociology of Monsters (editor, 1991) "Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: the Case of the Portuguese Expansion" (1987, in The Social Construction of Technological Systems)
Actor-network theory, sometimes abbreviated to ANT, is a social science approach for describing and explaining social, organisational, scientific and technological structures, processes and events. It assumes that all the components of such structures (whether these are human or otherwise) form a network of relations that can be mapped and described in the same terms or vocabulary.
Developed by STS scholars Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich and Bruno Latour, Law himself, and others, ANT may alternatively be described as a 'material-semiotic' method. ANT strives to map relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and 'semiotic' (between concepts), for instance, the interactions in a bank involve both people and their ideas, and computers. Together these form a single network.
Law, John; Lodge, Peter (1984). Science for social scientists. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN9780333351017. OCLC20492048.
Law, John (1994). Organizing modernity: social ordering and social theory. Oxford, UK Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell. ISBN9780631185130. OCLC901782885.
Law, John (2002). Aircraft stories: decentering the object in technoscience. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN9780822328247. OCLC231972039.
Law, John (2004). After method: mess in social science research. London New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415341752. OCLC989163983.
Bowman, Andrew; Ertürk, Ismail; Froud, Julie; Johal, Sukhdev; Law, John; Lever, Adam; Moran, Michael; Williams, Karel (2014). The end of the experiment? Reframing the foundational economy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN9780719096334. OCLC934513178.
Law, John, ed. (1991). A sociology of monsters: essays on power, technology, and domination. London New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415071390. OCLC902188595.
Brenna, Brita; Law, John; Moser, Ingunn, eds. (1998). Machines, agency and desire. Oslo: Center for Technology and Culture. ISBN9788213013093. OCLC807626021.
Law, John; Hassard, John, eds. (1999). Actor network theory and after. Oxford England Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell/Sociological Review. ISBN9780631211945. OCLC939893096.
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^Akrich, Madeleine (2023). "Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI". Social Studies of Science. 53 (2): 169–173. doi:10.1177/03063127231158102. ISSN0306-3127. PMID36840444. It was John Law who, from an inside-outside position, did an important job of synthesizing all the work developed at the CSI at the time taking up the term ANT (Law, 1992), a term whose origin is difficult to trace but which stems from the 'actor-network' used by Michel Callon in his analysis of the electric vehicle.