ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT), deals with Karen Barad's agential realism and describes Gerri McCulloh's feminist-materialist contribution. Latour argues that up to Plato-Hegel-Marx point there is an additional missing term, in the between, and that the term missing in dialectic is the 'quasi-object.' Latour's treatment of dialectics is a set of tricks arrows and circles. "ANT raises the challenge of studying reality as transitional in its becoming and as trajectories of creation. This idea of becoming and change is one of the central methodological ideals of dialectics as well". Law's approach to ANT is relational materialism while Latour's is assemblage of interactive relations. Both focus on fluid materialists, in an ontological choreography. One important outcome emerging from linking ANT and systems theory is a symmetrical, mutually dependent relationship "between the social construction of spatiality and spatial construction of sociality".
