Latour Chapter 2

• shifting from literature --> laboratories
• how do the devices help them write things down?
• studying scientists as outsiders
• following them at work
• how else do they figure out the world besides writing?
• "essential to visit the places where the fields/papers are happening/written"
• how do we move backwards to see where the journal articles are written
• what is an English/Literature laboratory?
• have text of Huck Finn
• word document or piece of paper
• other sources
• extracted, clean, redrawn, end result
• actual visual display of the mess
• can go back and forth between "clean and mess"
• inscription device:
• scale: temperature display
• machines: MRI, CAT
• poetry: text generators, 
• a test taster for quality
• a scanner: ex. looking at an ancient text
• to communicate