will be inscriptions in the form of accounting numbers
and technology and some will be machines. We adopted
a principle of generalised symmetry (Latour, 1987), which
meant to eschew pre-conceived boundaries between
spaces, times and modes of agency. We assumed from
the onset that action is dislocated, diffracted and distributed
via many entities, including non-human actors. In
the words of Latour (2005, p. 50):
By definition, action is dislocated . . . the most powerful
insight of social sciences is that other agencies over
which we have no control make us do things.