ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses some of the experiences and lessons I learned during my two-year work as the director of a highly complex public hospital 1,000 km away from the capital of Chile, with 525 beds, about 300 doctors, about 3,000 employees, a referential neurosurgical service, critical beds, two CT scanners and a magnetic nuclear resonator. I spoke explicitly about ANT in my daily work and tried hard to think immanently about my difficulties, without epistemic privileges, intensely situated, seeking to understand the production of technoscientific truths within that space and the affective, philosophical and vital connotations in the patients and families. Five lessons emerge: The invisibility of ANT from traditional politics; the democracy and public happiness built by ANT; the expression of the reflexive intellectuality of technicians (ANT in the wild?); the possibility of crossing boundaries for those technicians and the responsibility of ANT in the de-anthropocenisation of the present.
