To what extent is ontology a good and helpful term for STS scholars? Isn’t it too ‘philosophical’? Do we necessarily have to engage with philosophy, when we explore (even advocate) a shift from epistemology to ontology? If we do, what are the possibilities of productive engagement? These are some of the questions we’re going to discuss with the help of Manuel DeLanda’s chapter about social ontology.
Reference: DeLanda, M. (2006) Deleuzian social ontology and assemblage theory, in Fuglsang, M., & Sørensen, B. M. (eds.), Deleuze and the Social. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 250-266.