Not everything is at the core of a research project's interest. Nevertheless, there are always some topics of interest, which somehow belong to the project, if only because the researchers are personally interested in them. Here are some of these more ephemeral themes:

Relational ontologies are tempting because they (seem to) do away with a lot of dualisms which have been paralyzing social theory for a long time (like structure-agency, mind-body, technology-use, etc). However, some questions remain:

This is a presentation held at "New Network Theory", the 2007 ASCA International Conference, organized by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam Polytechnic) and Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, 28-30 June 2007

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