• “The ethnographers of science are usually more or less constructivist. That is, they argue that scientific knowledge is constructed in scientific practices. This, it should be noted, is not at all the same thing as saying it is constructed by scientists”
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• “From a philosophical point of view we all work in terms of more or less unexamined metaphysical (and ontological) assumptions. This is not a problem: there is no choice!”
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• “‘Reality is secreted.’ Notice that this posits a kind of feedback loop. Statements stabilise, and then recycle themselves back into the laboratory. This means that once they are demodalised, yesterday’s modalities become tomorrow’s hinterland”
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  • Mögliche Frage: Was für ‘gestrige Modalitäten‘ die heutige Hinterländer sind könnt ihr euch vorstellen?
• „Once a large number of arguments have become incorporated into a black box, the cost of raising alternatives to them becomes prohibitive“
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  • Mögliche Frage: Auf welche weiteren Prozesse/Bereiche des sozialen Lebens (außer Wissenschaft) könnte diese Aussage zutreffen und wie?
• “It is not a matter of words representing things. Words and worlds go together. Propositions (as he is now calling them) include realities – include a collective. Include and grow from what I am calling the hinterland.”
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  • Connection to D&G, lines of flight, infrastructure (as hinterland and vice versa)