Institutional Responsibility: The Short Life of Orchard

摘要

"Institutional Critique," as we know it, is obsolete. Institutions are composed of individuals-each of whom performs tens if not hundreds of actions daily to sustain the operation of their enterprise. This welter of interpersonal actions-or associations-is stabilized, as Bruno Latour has argued in Reassembling the Social, by objects (or constellations of objects) that sustain an institution's mission.