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ACTANT

A structural trait, a corporate body, an individual, or a loose aggregate of individuals. 

A node within a network.

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SOCIAL

Not a domain of reality or some particular item, but rather it is the name of a movement, a displacement, a transformation, a translation, an enrollment. It is an association between entities which are in no way recognizable as being social in the ordinary manner, except when they are reshuffled together. - Reassembling the Social pp. 64 - 65

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NETWORK

The connection between actants. 

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ASSEMBLAGE

The organization of actants on a plane.

SYMMETRY

Viewing all actants in a network on the same ontological plane. A computer is the same as a cell phone is the same as a human.

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