Dark matter in Actor-Network Theory context (La materia oscura en el contexto de la teor\'ia del actor-red)

TL;DR

This paper applies Actor-Network Theory to analyze the dark matter controversy in cosmology, exploring its role as an agent and opening a sociological perspective on its characteristics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel sociological approach to understanding dark matter by using ANT categories to analyze its role and agency in cosmological debates.

Findings

Dark matter can be conceptualized as an agent within ANT framework

ANT provides new insights into the sociological aspects of dark matter debates

The paper opens discussion on the sociological interpretation of cosmological entities

Abstract

The aim of this work is to use some categories of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) developed by Bruno Latour in the book Reassembling the Social -- An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory to analyze a current controversy that occurs in the area of cosmology: the dark matter existence and its characteristics. The central idea of this article is to try to decipher which type of agent is the dark matter and open the discussion about this topic from a sociological perspective.