El sensor fluido. La narrativa de una etnografía de laboratorio

César Prestel

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v11n1.823

The fluid sensor. Narrative of a laboratory study

Authors

César Prestel Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Abstract

In this article, I present the preliminary outcomes of the field work that I have been developing during the last two years, a laboratory study based on the Actor-Network theory which will be the nucleus of my Ph.D. thesis. Facing the challenge of writing this thesis, I analyze different possible ways of presenting what I have been witnessing in the laboratory. Finally, I propose the possibility of describing the sensor I have been studying as a multiple entity which perhaps might be described using the concept of wrapping.

Keywords

Laboratory studies, Actor-Network Theory, Multiple ontology, Wrapping

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Author Biography

César Prestel, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Es licenciado en Ciencias Físicas por la UAM y en Sociología por la UNED. Actualmente está llevando a cabo una investigación etnográfica de laboratorio dirigida a la realización de una tesis doctoral en el marco de la Teoría del Actor-Red.