"The Berlin key or how to do words with things" is an essay by sociologist Bruno Latour, that originally appeared as La clef de Berlin et autres lecons d'un amateur de sciences, La Découverte, in 1993. "The Berlin key or how to do words with things" was later published as the first chapter in P.M. Graves-Brown's Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture. Latour argues that while an object's purposefully designed material nature may recommend or permit a highly controlled set of functional purposes, it may also offer a broad range of valuable possibilities.
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| - Der Berliner Schlüssel (franz. Originaltitel: Inscrire dans la nature des choses ou la clef berlinoise) ist ein Essay des französischen Soziologen und Philosophen Bruno Latour aus dem Jahr 1991. Das Essay befasst sich mit der Verankerung von sozialen Verhaltenserwartungen und Normativitäten in alltäglichen Gegenständen. Zur Veranschaulichung und Erklärung dieses Phänomens wird von Latour der doppelbärtige, für Berlin typische Durchsteckschlüssel herangezogen. (de)
- "The Berlin key or how to do words with things" is an essay by sociologist Bruno Latour, that originally appeared as La clef de Berlin et autres lecons d'un amateur de sciences, La Découverte, in 1993. "The Berlin key or how to do words with things" was later published as the first chapter in P.M. Graves-Brown's Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture. Latour argues that while an object's purposefully designed material nature may recommend or permit a highly controlled set of functional purposes, it may also offer a broad range of valuable possibilities. (en)
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| - Der Berliner Schlüssel (franz. Originaltitel: Inscrire dans la nature des choses ou la clef berlinoise) ist ein Essay des französischen Soziologen und Philosophen Bruno Latour aus dem Jahr 1991. Das Essay befasst sich mit der Verankerung von sozialen Verhaltenserwartungen und Normativitäten in alltäglichen Gegenständen. Zur Veranschaulichung und Erklärung dieses Phänomens wird von Latour der doppelbärtige, für Berlin typische Durchsteckschlüssel herangezogen. Mit dem Essay über den Berliner Schlüssel setzt sich Latour zunächst mit der Anwendung und der Funktion des Schlüssels auseinander. Anschließend verwendet er dieses Artefakt als Erklärungsgegenstand für seine Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und seinen Ansatz der „Soziologie der Assoziationen“. Beide beschäftigten sich (unter anderem) mit der Redefinition und Entstehung des Sozialen (Miteinanders). Für Latour geht das Soziale letztendlich aus Assoziationen bzw. aus der Verflochtenheit zwischen Menschen und Dingen hervor. Mithilfe des Beispiels des Berliner Schlüssels wird diese Verflechtung erläutert und dargestellt. (de)
- "The Berlin key or how to do words with things" is an essay by sociologist Bruno Latour, that originally appeared as La clef de Berlin et autres lecons d'un amateur de sciences, La Découverte, in 1993. "The Berlin key or how to do words with things" was later published as the first chapter in P.M. Graves-Brown's Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture. In the 15-page chapter, written informally in third-person narrative, Latour describes a common object used in Berlin, a "Berlin Key" which is constructed so that after opening leaving one's apartment house, after unlocking the street door from the inside, one can only retrieve the key from the outside in a manner which locks the door behind oneself; upon entering, after one unlocks the door with the key, one must retrieve it from the inside, again locking the door behind oneself; this prevents leaving the door open but unlocked. The essay shows how many layers of significance a key can connote. In the P.M. Graves-Brown version, Lydia Davis translated the piece into English. Additional editing was completed and illustrations redrawn by PMGB. The title could have been chosen as a witty word-play off of J.L. Austin's How to Do Things With Words. Latour argues that while an object's purposefully designed material nature may recommend or permit a highly controlled set of functional purposes, it may also offer a broad range of valuable possibilities. Latour uses the Berlin key to show that there are social constraints which force people to do whatever it is that the object makes them do; thus, the object (the Berlin key) is a sign, of sorts, telling the inhabitants to 'lock their doors at night, but never during the day.' Latour discusses the relationship between the social realm and the technological realm. He asserts that the Sociologist and the Technologist are "enemy brothers", thinking they will come to an end—the sociologist with the social and the technologist with objects. (en)
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