Bruno Latour Libros

You are about to enter a new genre of scientific fables, which aim to reveal the complexities of understanding animal behavior. Is it acceptable to urinate in front of animals? What does it signify when a monkey throws feces? This book presents twenty-six questions that challenge our assumptions about animal behavior and cognition. Through an engaging abecedarium of chapters, Vinciane Despret explores remarkable and often humorous interactions between animals and humans—researchers, farmers, zookeepers, and handlers. Do animals possess a sense of humor? The stories illustrate that animals often delight in perplexing even the most knowledgeable experts, prompting them to develop new hypotheses that reveal animals' intelligence. These accounts encourage readers to engage with both ethology and philosophy, blending serious scholarship with humor that appeals to all. With a foreword by renowned philosopher Bruno Latour, this work is essential not only for specialists but also for general readers, including dog owners, who will gain a fresh perspective on their canine companions.

This monumental ZKM publication redefines politics as a concern for the things around which the fluid and expansive public gathers, featuring contributions from over 100 writers and artists. In a time of political turmoil, it challenges traditional notions of politics, suggesting that it operates in the realm of things rather than merely as an arena or system. The book poses essential questions about how things are made public and explores the concept of a republic, or res publica, in this context. It highlights various assemblies that engage the public around things—such as scientific laboratories, supermarkets, churches, and natural resource disputes—beyond the conventional political sphere. The authors examine the implications of centering politics around disputed things and the new atmospheric conditions—technologies, interfaces, platforms, and networks—that facilitate the public engagement of these things. They argue that the traditional definition of politics is too narrow, emphasizing the diverse techniques of representation in politics, science, and art, with Parliaments and Congresses being just a part of the landscape. Esteemed thinkers like Richard Rorty, Donna Haraway, and others contribute to this discourse, complemented by excerpts from literary figures such as Shakespeare and Melville. The publication is richly illustrated with over 500 color images that support the concept of "object-oriented democracy."

Describes Pasteur's roles in improving health practices in France and identifies the other forces that helped implement his ideas about health care.

From weaker to stronger rhetoric : literature - Laboratories - From weak points to strongholds : machines - Insiders out - From short to longer networks : tribunals of reason - Centres of calculation.

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: “Do you believe in reality?” Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora’s Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book, Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new “bête noire of the science worshipers,” gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur’s lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process.Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.

Latour is a world famous and widely published French sociologist known for his acclaimed writings on the relationship between people, science, and technology. His views have crystallized as 'Actor-Network-Theory' (ANT). This book is the first concise account Latour has written about ANT, with which he has come to be so closely associated with.

Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation of factishes.

Bruno Latour s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have never been modern . According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns.

In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? An Inquiry into Modes of Existence offers a new basis for diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time of ecological crisis.