{"id":6683,"date":"2007-01-21T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T22:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/an-account\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T22:55:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T22:55:52","slug":"an-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/an-account\/","title":{"rendered":"An Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

Latour, in ch. 5 of Reassembling<\/i>, writes this of "slow<\/i>ciological"
\naccounts:<\/p>\n

What is an account? It is typically a text<\/em>, a small ream of paper a few
\n\tmillimeters thick that is darkened by a laser beam. It may contain 10,000
\n\twords and be read by very few people, often only a dozen or a few hundred if
\n\twe are really fortunate. A 50,000 word thesis might be read by a half a
\n\tdozen people (if you are lucky, even your PhD advisor would have read parts
\n\tof it!) and when I say ‘read’, it does not mean ‘understood’, ‘put to use’,
\n\t‘quoted’, ‘shelved somewhere in a pile’. At best we add an account to all
\n\tthose which are simultaneously launched in the domain we have been studying.
\n\tOf course, this study is never complete. We start in the middle of things,
\n\tin medias res<\/i>, pressed by our colleagues, pushed by fellowships,
\n\tstarved for money, strangled by deadlines. And most of the things we have
\n\tbeen studying, we have ignored or misunderstood. (122)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even if I don’t choose this as the epigraph to the preface to the rough draft
\nof my dissertation prospectus, I find it to be an encouraging and humorous
\ncharacterization of the phase that lies ahead. And this is to say nothing of
\nReassembling<\/i> seeming one of the more important (read smart, even riveting)
\nbooks I’ve picked up in recent months. Well, right, I am being sort of pokey in
\ncrawling through it, the way an aspiring slow<\/i>ciologist of associations should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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