I'm interested to see how your assignment turns out. I haven't attempted to use Latour this directly in an assignment. I think you're right about the issue of reserving judgment. I like Latour's image of ANT as ant-like, just following the trail, not seeking to situate a scene or event against a cultural-ideological backdrop. I think this would be hard for my students to do (it's not easy for me, either), as they've been trained to reach conclusions. The playlist assignment would seem to link ANT with an Ulmer-esque conductive logic. It seems to me that perhaps unlike the ant trail, every scene/event offers multiple-rhizomatic connections to follow. The ANT investigator follows certain trails rather than others based on some logic or exigency or experimental heuristic.

Perhaps the playlist offers this logic/exigency/heuristic?