Actant (About)

Akrich & Latour (1992)

“Whatever acts or shifts actions, action itself being denned by a list of performances through trials; from these performances are deduced a set of competences with which the actant is endowed; the fusion point of a metal is a trial through which the strength of an alloy is defined; the bankruptcy of a company is a trial through which the faithfulness of an ally may be denned; an actor is an actant endowed with a character (usually anthropomorphic)” (p. 259).

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