Culture and Actor Network Theory

This article examines actor-network theory's (ANT) complex relationships with notions of culture. We start with a discussion of ANT's fundamental works and show how these question common notions of culture. In the second part, we show how current developments in ANT, which empirically focus on arts, markets, care, and democracy, strongly rely on a pragmatist approach to practices. The third part outlines ANT's methodological and theoretical contributions for cultural analysis. In sum, as a perspective ANT suggests a reformatting of what cultural analysis might entail.