A key with two symmetrical blades? To Bruno Latour there was something surrealistic about the forced-locking key, or “Berlin key.” The technological enigma led him to its sociological dimension. Inside and outside, openness and control, concierge and tenants, spouses and lovers, occupants and thieves, having and not having: nearly all these topics are attracting the WZB’s attention in 2014 and 2015.
