Comments on: And the time it takes to make them is the time taken to mean it. https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2010/07/27/and-the-time-it-takes-to-make-them-is-the-time-taken-to-mean-it/ Clarify Today, Design Tomorrow Fri, 18 Aug 2017 17:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 By: nicolas https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2010/07/27/and-the-time-it-takes-to-make-them-is-the-time-taken-to-mean-it/#comment-594 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:44:32 +0000 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/?p=4663#comment-594 Good one. It reminds me of this quote by Latour (in “Re-assembling the Social”) in the dialog with the student:

S: But that’s exactly my problem: to stop. I have to complete this doctorate. I have just eight more months. You always say ‘more de- scriptions’ but this is like Freud and his cures: indefinite analysis. When do you stop? My actors are all over the place! Where should I go? What is a complete description?
P: Now that’s a good question because it’s a practical one. As I always say: a good thesis is a thesis that is done. But there is another way to stop than just by ‘adding an explanation’ or ‘putting it into a frame’.
S: Tell me it then.
P: You stop when you have written your 50,000 words or whatever is the format here, I always forget.
S: Oh! That’s really great. So my thesis is finished when it’s com- pleted. So helpful, really, many thanks. I feel so relieved now.
P: Glad you like it! No seriously, don’t you agree that any method depends on the size and type of texts you promised to deliver?

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