Mediations and pragmatism

Abstract

The work of Antoine Hennion contains a specific and relevant contribution to social sciences in general. From a field of research that forms a sub-discipline Hennion's efforts question the limits of constructivism to give rise to a sociology of irreversibilities that integrates the relations between the human and the non-human into heterogeneous arrangements. This field, which offers the greatest difficulty to this maneuver, establishes the scope of a turn that the work of Hennion accompanies and helps to found. Music will no longer be just what musicology privileges. But this will not be denied in the name of abstract social forces. Music will be a relationship, an heteroclite arrangement that must be apprehended within that complexity. From this position, and under a new light, Hennion will offer us the possibility to understand both the objects of culture and the key role of the decisions and methodological strategies in the research that his program proposes.