 Further, in the entire discussion of ideas which preceded or followed the movement of '68, it is easy to find the place of those who, from near or from afar, had been trained by Canguilhem.Starting in the 1980s, Bruno Latour (b.1947), teacher at the engineering school "École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris", would develop the actor-network theory, a distinctive approach to social theory and research, best known for its controversial insistence on the agency of nonhumans.