Workshop presentation from EPIC 2005,

1. Object Sociality: Researching Living Things Simon Roberts Heinrich Schwarz

6. Things in the beginning… WHR Rivers

8. ‘ the social life of…” books documents avatars XML information echo chambers bacteria coffee routers paper ePrint archive speech

9. “ Objects are social relations made durable” Danny Miller

10. “ Listen to the whisper of things” Credit: Excerpted from Marco Susani’s presentation at Doors8, Delhi 2005

11. STS & Actor Network Theory

12. Connecting humans & non-humans Material Social Thing

13. Object centred environments… “ The expansion of object centred environments which situate and stabilize selves, define individual identities just as communities or families used to do, and promote forms of sociality that feed on and supplement the forms of sociality studied by social scientists” The Market as an Object of Attachment: Exploring Postsocial Relations in Financial Markets Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, in Canadian Journal of Sociology 25, 2 (2000): 141-168.

14. What this means? “ the influx of some of these objects and object-worlds into the social world has brought profound change to the way we work and spend our spare time…But it may also bring profound change to the structure of relationships, and call for the rethinking of sociality along lines that include objects in the concept of social relations.” Traders' engagement with markets: A postsocial relationship. Knorr-Cetina K. & Bruegger, U, in Theory, Culture & Society , 2002:19, 161–185

16. Break (for Practicing Object Relations)