Bruno Latour
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| - | "[[Bruno Latour|Latour]] employs mischievous means to deadly serious ends. Nothing so upset American scientists like [[Alan Sokal|Sokal]] than Latour's insistence that [[Ramesses II|Pharaoh Ramses]] could not have died of [[tuberculosis]] because tuberculosis had not yet been invented." [https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/journal/past-issues/online-content/the-monsters-of-bruno-latour] | + | "How could [[Ramesses II|he]] pass away due to a bacillus discovered by [[Robert Koch]] in 1882?"-- “[[Ramsès II est-il mort de la tuberculose?]]” (1998) |
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| - | "A very small number of theoretical physicists, deprived of their hefty [[Cold War]] budgets, are seeking a new menace, against which they will heroically offer the rampart of their intellect. It is no longer the [[war against the Soviets]], but rather the war against the ''[[postmodern]]'' intellectuals from abroad. France, in their eyes, has become another Colombia, a country of dealers who produce hard drugs—[[Derridium]] and [[Lacanium]]—which [[American academics]] cannot resist any more than crack."--"[[Is There Science after the Cold War?]]" -- [[Bruno Latour]], [[Le Monde]], 18 January 1997 | + | "A very small number of theoretical physicists, deprived of their hefty [[Cold War]] budgets, are seeking a new menace, against which they will heroically offer the rampart of their intellect. It is no longer the [[war against the Soviets]], but rather the war against the ''[[postmodern]]'' intellectuals from abroad. France, in their eyes, has become another Colombia, a country of dealers who produce hard drugs—[[Derridium]] and [[Lacanium]]—which [[American academics]] cannot resist any more than crack."--"[[Is There Science after the Cold War?]]" -- (1997) by Bruno Latour |
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| - | '''Bruno Latour''' (1947 – 2022) was a [[French philosopher]], [[anthropology|anthropologist]] and [[sociologist]]. He is especially known for his work in the field of [[Science and Technology Studies|science and technology studies]] (STS). After teaching at the [[École des Mines de Paris]] ([[Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation]]) from 1982 to 2006, he became Professor at [[Institut d'études politiques de Paris|Sciences Po Paris]] (2006-2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. | + | '''Bruno Latour''' (1947 – 2022) was a [[French philosopher]] active in [[science studies]] known for such books as ''[[We Have Never Been Modern]]'' (1991), ''[[Laboratory Life]]'' (1979) and ''[[Science in Action (book)|Science in Action]]'' (1987). |
| - | Latour is best known for his books ''[[We Have Never Been Modern]]'' (1991; English translation, 1993), ''[[Laboratory Life]]'' (with [[Steve Woolgar]], 1979) and ''[[Science in Action (book)|Science in Action]]'' (1987). Although his studies of scientific practice were at one time associated with [[social constructionist]] approaches to the philosophy of science, Latour has diverged significantly from such approaches. He is best known for withdrawing from the subjective/objective division and re-developing the approach to work in practice. Along with [[Michel Callon]] and [[John Law (sociologist)|John Law]], Latour is one of the primary developers of [[actor–network theory]] (ANT), a constructionist approach influenced by the [[ethnomethodology]] of [[Harold Garfinkel]], the generative [[semiotics]] of [[Algirdas Julien Greimas]], and (more recently) the sociology of [[Émile Durkheim]]'s rival [[Gabriel Tarde]]. | + | Although his studies of scientific practice were at one time associated with [[social constructionist]] approaches to the philosophy of science, Latour has diverged significantly from such approaches. |
| - | Latour's [[monograph]]s earned him a 10th place among most-cited book authors in the humanities and social sciences for the year 2007. | + | Other works of note include ''[[The Pasteurization of France]]'', ''[[Aramis, or, The Love of Technology]]'', ''[[Pandora's Hope]]'', "[[Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?]]" and ''[[Reassembling the Social]]''. |
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"Science is politics by other means" "How could he pass away due to a bacillus discovered by Robert Koch in 1882?"-- “Ramsès II est-il mort de la tuberculose?” (1998) "A very small number of theoretical physicists, deprived of their hefty Cold War budgets, are seeking a new menace, against which they will heroically offer the rampart of their intellect. It is no longer the war against the Soviets, but rather the war against the postmodern intellectuals from abroad. France, in their eyes, has become another Colombia, a country of dealers who produce hard drugs—Derridium and Lacanium—which American academics cannot resist any more than crack."--"Is There Science after the Cold War?" -- (1997) by Bruno Latour |
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Bruno Latour (1947 – 2022) was a French philosopher active in science studies known for such books as We Have Never Been Modern (1991), Laboratory Life (1979) and Science in Action (1987).
Although his studies of scientific practice were at one time associated with social constructionist approaches to the philosophy of science, Latour has diverged significantly from such approaches.
Other works of note include The Pasteurization of France, Aramis, or, The Love of Technology, Pandora's Hope, "Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?" and Reassembling the Social.
See also
- Actant
- Blackboxing
- Obligatory passage point
- Aramis
- Aramis, or the Love of Technology
- Technological determinism
- Science wars
- Social construction of technology
- Graphism thesis
- Mapping controversies
- Fashionable Nonsense
