Transitivities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Law (Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-148 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d212t |
| OpenAlex | W4244575094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 8 |
In this paper I describe the explosion of an aeroengine, the Olympus 22R, and the consequences of that explosion. Empirically, I explore both the puzzle-solving of the engineers as they tried to ascertain what had gone wrong, and the way in which this led to substantial delay in a major aircraft project, and consequent large-scale political and economic repercussions. Theoretically, I use these events to reflect on and denaturalise notions of scale and size. Instead of social and technical phenomena being seen as intrinsically different in size (a Euclidean notion), scale and size are considered to be relational effects. The aeroengine explosion is thus treated as disrupting a mathematically transitive series which was producing scale and size-and the social and technical repair work is treated as an attempt to remake scale relations so that 'small things', such as pieces of metal in the interior of aeroengines, were again rendered smaller than 'large things', such as economic and political context
Cartography · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Euclidean geometry · Geography · Geometry · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio · Scale effects · Sociology · Transitive relation · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Law · Mathematics · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy
How to Inquire About Energy Transition Processes
Taking world cities literally
World city topologies
An Immanentist Approach to the Urban
The city as a machine for learning
Enacting things through numbers
Materializing complementary and alternative medicine
Spatial relations and the materialities of political conflict
Of eagles and flies
Network Ruins and Green Structure Development
Is Actor Network Theory Critique
Knowledge, learning and development
Geographies of science
Translocal assemblages
Miserly Thinking/Excessful Geography
The Secret of Yucca Mountain
The Spaces and Subjects of a Globalising Economy
And if the Global Were Small and Noncoherent? Method, Complexity, and the Baroque
Social Order and the Blank Figure
Landscapes with a Heartbeat
Gamekeepers and Gamekeeping
The Possibilities of Performance
Disturbing geography
Questioning the Theoretical Basis of Current Global-City Research
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2018 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |