[lbo-talk] Rummy

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Sun Apr 13 10:31:26 PDT 2003


Kelley wrote:


> no doubt. war gaming is big in anti-terrorism research (and it's
> ubiquitous in the military anyway). Since RMA is about addressing
> terrism (tm)...
>
> http://www.bushwatch.com/rma.htm
>
> There's a paper at www.newamericancentury.org where you'll find a
> statement (one view) on what RMA might mean:
> http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

Thanks Kelly. I have another question that you and others might be able to answer.

In a seminar at York last week, reference was made to "actor network theory". Googling the phrase connects it to post-structuralism (the main person associated with the ideas involved seemed to be Latour). In the seminar, a local person at the University of Toronto, Joel Baum, was identified as the author of an edited collection setting out the basis of the approach. When I went to his website (<http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~baum/> I found that that his work is based in "game theory" and "complexity theory".

What is "actor network theory" and what, if any, are its connections to post-structuralism, "game theory" and "complexity theory"?

Ted



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