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This book, "Variations of a Building" by Brett Mommersteeg, explores the complex process of architectural creation and transformation, focusing on a specific project in Manchester. Drawing from the author's PhD research, the book examines the Factory project, highlighting its evolution from a historical industrial site to a modern enterprise hub. Incorporating Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies, Mommersteeg delves into the intricacies of building coordination, design meetings, and public engagement. The work is aimed at academics and practitioners in architecture and urban studies, offering insights into the social, technological, and environmental aspects of architecture. Through interviews and personal observations, the book provides a narrative that blends theory with practical experiences, emphasizing the fluid nature of architectural projects.

Sociology --- Higher education --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- Social geography --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- ruimtelijke ordening --- sociologie --- technologie --- architectuur --- wetenschappen --- Architecture. --- Actor-network theory. --- Actor-network theory

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This is the first book-length treatment of Neolithic burial in Britain to focus primarily on cave evidence. It interprets human remains from forty-eight caves and compares them to what we know of Neolithic collective burial elsewhere in Britain and Europe. It reviews the archaeology of these cave burials and treats them as important evidence for the study of mortuary practice. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, anthropology, osteology and cave science, the book demonstrates that cave burial was one of the earliest elements of the British Neolithic. It also shows that Early Neolithic cave-burial practice was highly varied, with many similarities to other burial rites. However, by the Middle Neolithic, a funerary practice which was specific to caves had developed.

Neolithic period --- Actor-network theory. --- Agency. --- Britain. --- Cave sedimentology. --- Caves. --- Funerary Archaeology. --- Neolithic burial. --- Object biography. --- Taphonomy.

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After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are governed by network norms that make up a social operating system. The social operating system offers an alternative to the imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid, heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges a theory for a global network society described by different concepts than those typical of Western modernity. »Der Band [beeindruckt] nicht nur durch seine Eigenschaft, konzise Überblicke herzustellen, sondern auch dadurch, dass in den einzelnen Abschnitten immer wieder deutlich der Bezug zur Hauptthese hergestellt und durch Vor- und Rückgriffe eine dichte Argumentation geführt wird. Die Klarheit und Nachvollziehbarkeit des Textes lässt ihn dabei als eine einführende Lektüre in die ANT und ihre Anwendungsgebiete ebenso geeignet erscheinen wie als Ausgangspunkt oder Argument einer fortgesetzten Methoden-Diskussion.« Solvejg Nitzke, MEDIENwissenschaft, 3 (2015)

Social sciences --- Actor-network theory. --- Social networks. --- Information society. --- Information technology --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- ANT (Sociological theory) --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Théorie de l'acteur-réseau --- Sociology --- Information superhighway --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Methodology --- Société numérique --- Herméneutique --- Société numérique. --- Théorie de l'acteur-réseau. --- Herméneutique. --- Hermeneutics; New Media; Actor-Network Theory; Philosophy; Digital Society; Network Society; Social Theory; Constructivism; Internet; Social Relations; Digital Media; Media Theory; Sociological Theory; Media Studies --- Actor-Network Theory. --- Constructivism. --- Digital Media. --- Digital Society. --- Internet. --- Media Studies. --- Media Theory. --- Network Society. --- New Media. --- Social Relations. --- Social Theory. --- Sociological Theory.

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Archaeology --- Material culture --- Landscapes --- Phenomenology --- Actor-network theory --- Philosophy --- ontologie --- epistemology --- Philosophy, Modern --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- ANT (Sociological theory) --- Sociology --- Methodology --- kennisleer --- archaeology --- Theory of knowledge --- archeologie --- Archeology --- material culture [discipline] --- phenomenology --- Archaeology - Philosophy

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Sociological theory building --- Philosophy of science --- cultural heritage --- sociale processen --- cultureel erfgoed --- Action theory. --- Act (Philosophy) --- Social networks. --- Actor-network theory. --- Action, Théorie de l' --- Action (Philosophie) --- Acteur-réseau, Théorie de l' --- Action theory --- Goal-directed action --- Goal-directed behavior --- Theory, Action --- Action (Philosophy) --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy). --- -Theoretische sociologie: structuralisme, poststructuralisme --- Théorie de l'action --- Actor-network theory --- Théorie de l'action --- Acteur-réseau, Théorie de l' --- Social networks --- Sociology --- #SBIB:316.21H51 --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Psychology --- Philosophy --- ANT (Sociological theory) --- Theoretische sociologie: structuralisme, poststructuralisme --- Methodology --- Philosophy. --- Sociologie --- Réseaux sociaux --- Philosophie --- Social sciences --- Social systems. --- Organizational sociology. --- Sociology - Philosophy