In order to begin to account for social interactions Latour makes clear in the sections “How to Keep the Social Flat” and “First Move: Localizing the Global” that the scale of how to observe these connections is vital.
In “How to Keep the Social Flat”, Latour argues that it is time to move away from/stop placing so much emphasize on how “elements which are already in the situation” are affected by time, place, and agency. In which these situations should be avoided because they create unfollowable paths that the social scientist of the social conceive as “preexisting entities” (166). Latour makes clear that it is possible to provide a compromise between the tension between body politic and society through the utilization of ANT, because
In “How to Keep the Social Flat”, Latour argues that it is time to move away from/stop placing so much emphasize on how “elements which are already in the situation” are affected by time, place, and agency. In which these situations should be avoided because they create unfollowable paths that the social scientist of the social conceive as “preexisting entities” (166). Latour makes clear that it is possible to provide a compromise between the tension between body politic and society through the utilization of ANT, because