Home > theorywatch > Thing theory

Thing theory

August 18th, 2007

There’s nothing I enjoy more than a theory that’s new to me, and here’s a fascinating one: Thing Theory, associated with a really interesting course syllabus from Michael Shanks at Stanford. (Though I’m surprised to see that it doesn’t reference Actor-Network Theory, with which it seems to have quite a bit in common.)

If one were going to teach a “Foundations of Library and Information Studies” course using this approach, what intellectual tools would one use as examples? What readings would accompany them?

  1. No comments yet.
  1. No trackbacks yet.