John Law

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John Law is affiliated with the following schools: Open University, Lancaster University, University of Wollongong, University of Wales, Keele University, Duke University, University of Kent

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According to Wikipedia, John Law , is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar, currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. Law coined the term Actor-Network Theory in 1992 when synthesising work done with colleagues at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation.

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After Method: Mess in Social Science Research (2004) (3374)
Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity (1992) (2824)
Robust Statistics—The Approach Based on Influence Functions (1986) (2641)
Actor Network Theory and After (1999) (2050)
A Sociology of monsters: Essays on power, technology, and domination (1991) (1786)
Actor-network theory and material semiotics (2009) (1489)
Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change (1994) (1460)
Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge? (1986) (1398)
After Ant: Complexity, Naming and Topology (1999) (1380)
Enacting the social (2004) (1238)
Regions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology (1994) (970)
Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology (1986) (866)
Mapping the dynamics of science and technology : sociology of science in the real world (1988) (797)
On the Methods of Long-Distance Control: Vessels, Navigation and the Portuguese Route to India (1984) (765)
Situating Technoscience: An Inquiry into Spatialities (2001) (509)
Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (2002) (471)
Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies: the Example of Hypoglycaemia (2004) (469)
Agency and the Hybrid Collectif (1995) (456)
On Interests and their Transformation: Enrolment and Counter-Enrolment (1982) (448)
Objects and Spaces (2002) (423)
TECHNOLOGY AND HETEROGENEOUS ENGINEERING: THE CASE OF PORTUGUESE EXPANSION (2018) (415)
Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience (2002) (414)
Notes on Materiality and Sociality (1995) (366)
After the individual in society : Lessons on collectivity from science, technology and society (1997) (354)
Reassembling Social Science Methods: The Challenge of Digital Devices (2013) (329)
Engineering and Sociology in a Military Aircraft Project: A Network Analysis of Technological Change (1988) (323)
On Qualculation, Agency, and Otherness (2005) (317)
Seeing Like a Survey (2009) (305)
Introduction: Monsters, Machines and Sociotechnical Relations (1990) (304)
On Sociology and STS (2008) (295)
The Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001 (2008) (284)
What's wrong with a one-world world? (2015) (241)
Slippery: Field notes in empirical ontology (2013) (229)
And if the Global Were Small and Noncoherent? Method, Complexity, and the Baroque (2004) (214)
Making a mess with method (2007) (214)
Globalisation in practice: On the politics of boiling pigswill (2008) (193)
Traduction / Trahison: Notes on ANT (2006) (184)
Performing Technology's Stories: On Social Constructivism, Performance, and Performativity (2000) (183)
Complexities: An Introduction (2002) (160)
Power, Discretion and Strategy (1990) (159)
Good Passages, Bad Passages (1999) (158)
Introduction: Absence — Presence, Circulation, and Encountering in Complex Space (2004) (158)
Picturing Power: Visual Depiction and Social Relations (1988) (158)
‘Emergent Aliens’: On Salmon, Nature, and Their Enactment (2011) (148)
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF METHODS: Devices (2013) (139)
Lists, field guides, and the descriptive organization of seeing: Birdwatching as an exemplary observational activity (1988) (136)
Putting Facts Together: A Study of Scientific Persuasion (1982) (132)
On Power and its Tactics: A View from the Sociology of Science (1986) (127)
Materialities, spatialities, globalities. (2000) (126)
ANT and Politics: Working in and on the World (2013) (126)
On the Subject of the Object: Narrative, Technology, and Interpellation (2000) (124)
The Double Social Life of Methods (2011) (116)
Disaster in Agriculture: Or Foot and Mouth Mobilities (2006) (113)
ANT, multiplicity and policy (2014) (108)
Object Lessons (2005) (102)
On the Social Explanation of Technical Change: The Case of the Portuguese Maritime Expansion (1987) (100)
How to Study the Force of Science (1986) (97)
The Development of Specialties in Science: the Case of X-ray Protein Crystallography (1973) (97)
Networks, relations, cyborgs: on the social study of technology (2006) (96)
Provincializing Sts: Postcoloniality, Symmetry, and Method (2017) (90)
Care and killing: tensions in veterinary practice (2010) (89)
The Heterogeneity of Texts (1986) (86)
Veterinary realities: what is foot and mouth disease? (2011) (82)
Economics as interference (2002) (75)
Fluids or flows? Information and qualculation in medical practice (2006) (74)
The Materials of STS (2010) (70)
A Co-Word Study of Artificial Intelligence (1989) (63)
Science For Social Scientists (1984) (63)
Boundary Variations: An Introduction (2005) (60)
Modes of Syncretism: Notes on Noncoherence (2013) (55)
Organization: Distal and Proximal Views (2015) (55)
DEVICES AS RITUALS (2013) (49)
Editor's Introduction: Power/Knowledge and the Dissolution of the Sociology of Knowledge (1984) (49)
Ladbroke Grove, or How to Think about Failing Systems (2000) (48)
Local Entanglements or Utopian Moves: An Inquiry into Train Accidents (2002) (47)
Managing, subjectivities and desires. (1999) (46)
Making voices: new media technologies, disabilities, and articulation (2003) (44)
A correlative STS: Lessons from a Chinese medical practice (2014) (43)
After Networks (2000) (43)
On the Art of Representation: Notes on the Politics of Visualisation (1987) (39)
Cognitive and Physiological Processes Underlying Drawing Skills (2017) (38)
The Greer-Bush test: on politics in STS (2010) (37)
The Structure of Sociotechnical Engineering — A Review of the New Sociology of Technology (1987) (37)
The Olympus 320 Engine: A Case Study in Design, Development, and Organizational Control (1992) (37)
Digital Devices: Nine Theses (2010) (36)
K-vacancy creation by high-Z heavy-ion impact (1973) (33)
Resisting Pictures: Representation, Distribution and Ontological Politics (1998) (33)
The Venetian Mainland State in the Fifteenth Century (1992) (32)
Introduction: On the Invisibility of the Visual (1987) (30)
Allegory and its others (2003) (30)
Laboratories and Texts (1986) (29)
Comment on Suchman, and Gherardi and Nicolini: Knowing as Displacing (2000) (29)
The da varano lords of Camerino as condottiere princes (2008) (27)
Putting Texts in Their Place (1986) (26)
Contexts and Culling (2012) (24)
Normative and Interpretive Sociologies of Science (1974) (24)
Italy in the age of the Renaissance, 1380-1530 (1989) (24)
How Can We Define Federalism (2013) (23)
Theory and Narrative in the History of Technology: Response (1991) (23)
On Customers and Costs: A Story from Public Sector Science (1994) (22)
Mis/translation, Colonialism, and Environmental Conflict (2018) (21)
Sámi salmon, state salmon: TEK, technoscience and care (2017) (20)
On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism, and Aircraft Design (2020) (19)
Interests and the Growth of Knowledge (1984) (18)
We Have Never Been Latecomers!? Making Knowledge Spaces for East Asian Technosocial Practices (2015) (18)
The Stickiness of Knowing: Translation, Postcoloniality, and STS (2017) (16)
Indigeneity, Science, and Difference: Notes on the Politics of How (2018) (16)
Theories and methods in the sociology of science: An interpretive approach (1974) (15)
Allegory and Interference: Representation in Sociology (2003) (15)
Where Is East Asia in STS? (2019) (15)
Verbing meahcci: Living Sámi lands (2020) (14)
Words to think with: An introduction (2020) (13)
Disaster: a further species of trouble? Disaster and narrative (2009) (13)
Notes on fish, ponds and theory (2012) (13)
Machinic Pleasures and Interpellations ( (2003) (12)
Development of a Large Network Model to Evaluate the Yield of a Proposed Reservoir (1989) (12)
Fragmentation and Investment in Sedimentology (1980) (12)
AFTER META-NARRATIVE: ON KNOWING IN TENSION (1998) (11)
1. Uncommoning Nature: Stories from the Anthropo-Not- Seen (2020) (10)
Practising nature and culture: An essay for Ted Benton (2008) (10)
Research Note: Areas of Ignorance in Normal Science: A Note on Mulkay's ‘Three Models of Scientific Development’ (1976) (9)
Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance (2005) (9)
DENATURALIZING NATURE (2018) (9)
Culling, Catastrophe and Collectivity (2008) (9)
Structure as process and environmental constraint (1978) (9)
Modes of Knowing: Resources from the Baroque (2016) (9)
The explanatory burden: an essay on Hugh Raffles’ Insectopedia (2011) (9)
Pinboards and books: Learning, materiality and juxtaposition (2007) (9)
A Further Species of Trouble:Disaster (2009) (7)
Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (2010) (7)
THE EXPLANATORY BURDEN: An Essay on Hugh Raffles's Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles (2011) (7)
Tidescapes: Notes on a shi-inflected Social Science (2018) (7)
Transitivities (2000) (7)
The ‘Problem’ of Relativism (1984) (6)
Preface (1999) (6)
Principal Component Analysis (1987) (6)
Actor Network Theory and Material (2009) (5)
Luossa and Laks. Salmon, science and LEK (2017) (5)
Prophecy Failed (for the Actors)!: A Note on 'Recovering Relativity' (1977) (5)
Heterogeneous Engineering and Tinkering 1 (2011) (5)
Technology Transfer and Social Engineering (1987) (4)
Sense on Federalism (2012) (4)
On metrics and fluids (1998) (4)
Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl (2017) (4)
Indigeneity, Science, and Difference (2019) (3)
The Medici: Citizens and Masters (2017) (3)
Cultivating Disconcertment 1 (2010) (3)
Age Qualification and the Venetian Constitution: the Case of the Capello Family (1971) (3)
Sociology of Science (1980) (3)
Lost Geographies of Power. By John Allen. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. ix+217. $64.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). (2004) (3)
The Practices of Fishy Sentience (2016) (3)
Compexity, naming and technology. (1999) (2)
A city girl (1984) (2)
On the malleability of people and computers: a focused approach to office ethnography (1986) (2)
ANT, multplicity and policy (2014) (2)
Care and killing Tensions in veterinary practice (2010) (2)
Introduction: The Social Life of Methods - Devices (2013) (2)
Is Epistemology Redundant? A Sociological View (2017) (2)
Technik und heterogenes Engineering: der Fall der portugiesischen Expansion (2006) (2)
Materiality, Writing, Subjectivity: Notes on Desire, Technology, Inclusion (1998) (2)
Luossa and Laks (2017) (2)
Land and Power in Late Medieval Ferrara: The Rule of the Este, 1350–1450, Trevor Dean. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1987), v, +212. £25.00 and $44.50 (1988) (2)
Some aspects of practical marine seismic survey quality control (1987) (2)
Interests and Knowledge (1984) (2)
Verona and the Venetian State in the Fifteenth Century (1979) (1)
Guelfs and Ghibelines in Belluno c. 1400 (2011) (1)
Thinking differently with Chinese medicine: ‘Explanations’ and case studies for a postcolonial STS (2022) (1)
Venice and the Veneto in the early Renaissance (2002) (1)
Shaping Technology/Building Technology: Studies in Sociotechnical Change (1995) (1)
Afterword: The Infrastructures of Difference (2020) (1)
A History of the Law Faculty (1996) (1)
The Italian North (2000) (1)
Complexity in Science, Technology and Medicine. (2002) (1)
The Renaissance and the Celtic countries (2005) (1)
A city girl : a realistic story ; Out of work (2011) (1)
Enchanting Materialities: e-textiles installations for an ecosophic world (2020) (1)
Extended Review: Implicit Meanings (1977) (1)
Venice and the Veneto in the Early Renaissance (2000) (1)
Years in Bloom (2002) (1)
Modes of Naturing: or stories of salmon (2018) (1)
Captain Lobe : a story of the Salvation Army (2011) (1)
Out of work (1990) (1)
A Lesson in Love (1996) (1)
The value chain of scholarly communication: Discoverability issues and collaboration opportunities (2012) (1)
Olympic games, 2004. (2000) (1)
The legal implications of extending nurses' roles (2002) (1)
Discoverability in the 21st Century (2012) (0)
Arab investors : who they are, what they buy, and where (1980) (0)
Beyond the Paths of Heaven: The Emergence of Space Power Thought (review) (2000) (0)
Glimpses of Hidden India (2012) (0)
Growing Pains (2002) (0)
Links Between Classes: Economy and Coherence (1984) (0)
The Problem of Verstehen (1984) (0)
Sandra Cavallo, Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy. Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin, 1541–1789 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xv + 280pp. 17 plates. 6 figures. 10 tables. £45.00, $69.95 hbk; £17.95, $27.95 pbk. (1997) (0)
Biogea: Love, hate and the murmurings of the world (2013) (0)
Science and Social Science (1984) (0)
Imaging the seasons: objects and the almanac form (2014) (0)
The Illustrated Almanac of Illawarra and Beyond (2017) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1990) (0)
Specialities in science : a sociological study of X-ray crystallography (1972) (0)
Workability and Truth (1984) (0)
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 1: Keynote and Materiality (2020) (0)
Review of English Medieval Architects; A Biographical Dictionary Down to 1550. Revised Edition (Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester, 1984). Pp. lxii, 479. Written by John Harvey (1986) (0)
Negotiation, Persuasion and the Power of Knowledge (1984) (0)
Maria Georgopoulou, Venice's Mediterranean Colonies. Architecture and Urbanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xv + 383pp. 136 figures. Bibliography. £50.00 (2003) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2000) (0)
The Tombs of the Scaligers at Verona: a nineteenth century English account (2014) (0)
Anomalies and Scientific Revolutions (1984) (0)
Normal Science and the Operation of Interests (1984) (0)
"Major cold: streams and marshes frozen solid" (2012) (0)
Sealed CO2 lasers find new applications (2002) (0)
"Major cold: pheasant hens brood" (2012) (0)
Old Earth - 2nd IFVA Awards - Hong Kong Arts Centre (2007) (0)
The Almanac Projects: Seasons Experienced through the Material World (2012) (0)
Scientific Socialisation and the Alignment of Networks (1984) (0)
The Autumn Almanac of Tokyo (2008) (0)
Ronald E. Zupko and Robert A. Laures, Straws in the Wind. Medieval Urban Environmental Law . Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, 1996. vii + 152pp. Bibliography. No price stated. (1998) (0)
"Start of spring: east wind melts ice" (2012) (0)
The Social Structure of ‘Primitive’ Ideas: the Azande Poison Oracle (1984) (0)
Crime and Disorder in Renaissance Italy (1991) (0)
The Acquisition of Social Coherence Conditions: Perception (1984) (0)
Self-confidence and the Redundancy of Philosophy (1984) (0)
Data natures: the politics and aesthetics of prediction (2016) (0)
Book reviews (2007) (0)
An Invitation to Think Again: Digital Media Revisited@@@Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovation in Digital Domains (2004) (0)
The Acquisition of Social Coherence Conditions: Metaphor and Theory (1984) (0)
Rain water: wild geese heard north (2012) (0)
Patronage and Dynasty. The Rise of the Della Rovere in the Renaissance ‐ Edited by Ian F. Verstegen (2009) (0)
Twilight States and the Edges of Darkness (2016) (0)
"Start of spring: dormant creatures twitch" (2012) (0)
Links Between Classes: Strength (1984) (0)
The Social Structure of Ideology (1984) (0)
A memoir of the Mughal Empire : events of 1757-1761 (2014) (0)
The Social Structure of Common Sense (1984) (0)
Games of Submission in Late Medieval Italy (2011) (0)
"Ditto" - Images in Print (2009) (0)
Extended Review: Abandoning Method: Sociological Studies in Methodology (1975) (0)
On Benthic Ecology, Sociological Determinism, and Other Matters (1981) (0)
The Acquisition of Social Coherence Conditions: Manipulation (1984) (0)
Translating a title: On other terms (2020) (0)
Right Product, Wrong Packaging: Not 'Constitution', but 'Constitutional Charter' (2007) (0)
Philosophies of Science and the Network Theory (1984) (0)
Voices of the West End (2007) (0)
"Start of spring: fish swim upstream and break the ice" (2012) (0)
Ditto: Images in Print - Faculty of Creative Arts Gallery (2009) (0)
Book Review: Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser, eds., The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art, Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ, 2008; xviii + 234 pp.; 9780691125411, £28.95 (hbk) (2011) (0)
100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019) (0)
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth‐Century Italy By William Caferro (2007) (0)
"Major cold: vulture flies stern and swift" (2012) (0)
The universities of the Italian Renaissance. By Paul F. Grendler. Pp. xx+592 incl. map, 12 figs and 18 tables. Baltimore–London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. £34. 0 8018 6631 6 (2004) (0)
Trevor Dean (ed.), The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages. Selected Sources Translated and Annotated. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. ix + 252pp. 1 map. Bibliography. £45.00 hbk, £15.99 pbk. (2002) (0)
A clerical chronicler of c. 1400: Clemente Miari of Belluno (1988) (0)
Editorial (2000) (0)
Old Earth - 60-minute Cinema exhibition - Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK (2012) (0)
Regulation and the Legal Profession (2008) (0)
"Rain water: river otters sacrifice fish" (2012) (0)
Leaf removal: timing, how many, where (1992) (0)
Valedictory (2007) (0)
The Myth of Republicanism in Renaissance Italy, by Fabrizio Ricciardelli (2017) (0)
The conditions of system failure (2020) (0)
The Social Life of Methods: Digital Devices (2013) (0)
The Journey Home (2020) (0)
Years in Bloom ... In the Mood for Love (2002) (0)
Knitting and crochet as experiment: Exploring social and material practices of computation and craft (2017) (0)
Thw World of Things - Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art - Performance Space, Sydney (2011) (0)
Static with White (1996) (0)
Working the line (1993) (0)
A World of Things (2015) (0)
Taking your board to the next level: a conversation with eight philanthropy board leaders. (2007) (0)
The Kraft of Labour, Labour as Craft: Hayao Miyazaki’s Images of Work (2022) (0)
'Some Useful Values', A Working Model of the World (2017) (0)
Private care. Home ward bound? (1989) (0)
Nachwort (1992) (0)
ACAS PROVIDES AN EFFECTIVE SAFETY NET WHEN PROCEDURES ARE FOLLOWED (2004) (0)
2. What You Need to Know to Be a Fish Farmer in West Norway (2018) (0)
It's not just the pigs...a comment on the RDLS III. (1999) (0)
Elderly care. Houses of horror. (1988) (0)
A Critical Analysis of the Principle of Complementarity (1998) (0)
NELLES V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF ONTARIO ET AL. (2011) (0)
Animal architextures 1 (2013) (0)
The Burden of Choice, the Complexity of the World and Its Reduction: the Game of Go/Weiqi as a Practice of “Empirical Metaphysics” (2019) (0)
Signals Lost in Transporter Room Three (1996) (0)
Biogea: Love, hate and the murmurings of the world (2013) (0)
Method, Performativity and Politics (2008) (0)
The Pleasure of Imperfection (2013) (0)
Heterogeneities DOT net (2011) (0)
Study 1: Air Displacement (2016) (0)
Knowledge Places 1 (2011) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
ANT and Politics: Working in and on the World (2013) (0)
Processual Power, Processual Meaning? (2021) (0)

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