Name the theory which assumes that 'culture is not separate from nature, and that there is no hierarchy of actants such that the human is more privileged'.
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Correct answer: A. Actor Network Theory
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Actor Network Theory (Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law) treats humans and non-humans alike as 'actants' in networks and refuses a nature/culture divide — a 'flat ontology'. Posthumanism shares the anti-anthropocentric spirit, but 'actants' is ANT's own term. Cultural Materialism (Williams, Dollimore, Sinfield) is a Marxist approach to texts, and Adaptation Theory studies transfers between media.
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