Abstract

This text proposes an actualization and radicalization of what John Tresch (2012), describes as a “labor theory of knowledgeµ: a theory of knowledge that acknowledges the labor of humans and that of instruments and machines as intrinsic elements of how things come to be known. Bringing together Tresch with Karen Barad’s (2007) posthumanist performative understanding of the scientific apparatus and Mark Hansen’s (2015) non-prosthetic understanding of mediation, it works towards an understanding of knowing as a distributed practice that humans as well as technologies and matter participate in.