theorywatch

There’s nothing I enjoy more than a theory that’s new to me, and here’s a fascinating one: Thing Theory, associated with a really interesting course syllabus from Michael Shanks at Stanford. (Though I’m surprised to see that it doesn’t reference Actor-Network Theory, with which it seems to have quite a bit in common.)

If one were going to teach a “Foundations of Library and Information Studies” course using this approach, what intellectual tools would one use as examples? What readings would accompany them?